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Asterios Polyp

by David Mazzucchelli
language: english
Publisher: ALFRED A. KNOPF, July of 2009 ‧
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The triumphant return of one of comics’ greatest talents, with an engrossing story of one man’s search for love, meaning, sanity, and perfect architectural proportions. An epic story long awaited, and well worth the wait.

Meet Asterios Polyp: middle-aged, meagerly successful architect and teacher, aesthete and womanizer, whose life is wholly upended when his New York City apartment goes up in flames. In a tenacious daze, he leaves the city and relocates to a small town in the American heartland. But what is this "escape" really about?

As the story unfolds, moving between the present and the past, we begin to understand this confounding yet fascinating character, and how he’s gotten to where he is. And isn’t. And we meet Hana: a sweet, smart, first-generation Japanese American artist with whom he had made a blissful life. But now she’s gone. Did Asterios do something to drive her away? What has happened to her? Is she even alive? All the questions will be answered, eventually.

In the meantime, we are enthralled by Mazzucchelli’s extraordinarily imagined world of brilliantly conceived eccentrics, sharply observed social mores, and deftly depicted asides on everything from design theory to the nature of human perception.

Asterios Polyp is David Mazzucchelli’s masterpiece: a great American graphic novel.

Asterios Polyp

by David Mazzucchelli

Property Description
ISBN: 9780307377326
Publisher: ALFRED A. KNOPF
Release Date: July of 2009
Language: English
Dimensions: 267 x 205 x 28 mm
Cover: Hardcover
Pages: 344
Format: Book
Collection: Pantheon Graphic Library
Categories: Books in English > Graphic Novels & Manga > Graphic Novel
EAN: 9780307377326

A obra-prima do Mazzucchelli

João R. Marques

Neste livro , David Mazzucchelli dá uma lição de narrativa gráfica. Explorando temas como a identidade, o amor e a transformação, partindo da vida de um arquiteto de meia-idade. O autor prova ser mais do que um desenhador (muito bom!) de super-heróis. Muito mais.

Asterios Polyp

Joao Sousa Pinto

Absolutamente genial.

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