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Maus I and II Paperback Boxed Set: Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father

Maus I and II Paperback Boxed Set: Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History; Maus II: A Survivor's Tale. And Here My Troubles Began Paperback - 1991

by Spiegelman, Art

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The winner of the 1992 Pulitzer Prize, this set includes volumes one and two of "the most affecting and successful narrative ever done about the Holocaust" (Raymond Sokolov, "Wall Street Journal."

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New York: Pantheon Books, 1991. Two volume paperback set in slipcase. Volume I dated 1986; volume II dated 1991. Graphic novels with comic strip style illustrations in black and white throughout. Two softcover volumes in slipcase. The books are in very good condition with some rubbing to the corners and spine ends, firm bindings, clean pages, no names or other markings. The slipcase has similar rubbing to corners and spine ends, structurally sound. . Soft Cover. Very Good/Very Good Slipcase. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Summary

“Here is the paper back boxed set, in its original two-volume format, re-released to include a sixteen-page booklet designed by the artist. A brutally moving work of art—widely hailed as the greatest graphic novel ever written—Maus recounts the chilling experiences of the author’s father during the Holocaust, with Jews drawn as wide-eyed mice and Nazis as menacing cats. Maus is a haunting tale within a tale, weaving the author’s account of his tortured relationship with his aging father into an astonishing retelling of one of history’s most unspeakable tragedies. It is an unforgettable story of survival and a disarming look at the legacy of trauma.” - from publisher

From the publisher

Art Spiegelman is a contributing editor and artist for The New Yorker, and a co-founder/editor of Raw, the acclaimed magazine of avant-garde comics and graphics. His drawings and prints have been exhibited in museums and galleries here and abroad. Honors he has received for Maus include the Pulitzer Prize, a Guggenheim fellowship, and nominations for the National Book Critics Circle Award. He lives in New York City with his wife, Françoise Mouly, and their two children, Nadja and Dashiell.

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I went out to see my Father in Rego Park.

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Volumes I & II in paperback of this 1992 Pulitzer Prize-winning illustrated narrative of Holocaust survival.

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Media reviews

“The most affecting and successful narrative ever done about the Holocaust.”
—The Wall Street Journal 

"The first masterpiece in comic book history.”
—The New Yorker

“A loving documentary and brutal fable, a mix of compassion and stoicism [that] sums up the experience of the Holocaust with as much power and as little pretension as any other work I can think of.”
—The New Republic

“A quiet triumph, moving and simple—impossible to describe accurately, and impossible to achieve in any medium but comics.”
—The Washington Post

“Spiegelman has turned the exuberant fantasy of comics inside out by giving us the most incredible fantasy in comics’ history: something that actually occurred . . . The central relationship is not that of cat and mouse, but that of Art and Vladek. Maus is terrifying not for its brutality, but for its tenderness and guilt.”
—The New Yorker

“All too infrequently, a book comes along that’s as daring as it is acclaimed. Art Spiegelman’s Maus is just such a book.”
—Esquire

“An epic story told in tiny pictures.”
—The New York Times

“A remarkable work, awesome in its conception and execution . . . at one and the same time a novel, a documentary, a memoir, and a comic book. Brilliant, just brilliant.”
—Jules Feffer

Citations

  • Entertainment Weekly, 06/27/2008, Page 98

About the author

ART SPIEGELMAN is one of the world's most admired and beloved comic artists, best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning Holocaust narrative, Maus. Born in Stockholm in 1948, Spiegelman began studying cartooning in high school and drawing professionally at age sixteen. He studied art and philosophy at Harpur College before joining the underground comics movement in the 1960s. Spiegelman taught history and the aesthetics of comics at the School of Visual Arts in New York from 1979 to 1986, and in 1980 he founded RAW, the acclaimed avant-garde comics magazine, with his wife, Franoise Mouly. Honors Spiegelman has received include induction into the Will Eisner Hall of Fame and the Art Director's Club Hall of Fame. In 2005, he was named one of Time magazine's 100 Most Influential People. He was made an Officier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 2007, and in 2011 he was awarded the Grand Prix at the Angoulme International Comics Festival. In 2015, he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and in 2018 he became the first comic artist to receive the Edward MacDowell Medal. His art has been exhibited at museums throughout the world, including the Pompidou Center in Paris, the Ludwig Museum in Cologne, the Vancouver Art Gallery, the Jewish Museum in New York City, and the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art.

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