Complete Maus

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The Complete Maus" by Art Spiegelman
- the Pulitzer prize-winning Holocaust survivor story. " The most affecting & successful narrative ever done about the Holocaust". (" Wall Street Journal"). " The first masterpiece in comic book history". (" The New Yorker"). " The Pulitzer Prize-winning " Maus" tells the story of Vladek Spiegelman a Jewish survivor of Hitler's Europe & his son a cartoonist coming to terms with his father's story. " Maus" approaches the unspeakable through the diminutive. Its form the cartoon (the Nazis are cats the Jews mice) shocks us out of any lingering sense of familiarity & succeeds in 'drawing us closer to the bleak heart of the Holocaust'". (" The New York Times"). " Maus" is a haunting tale within a tale. Vladek's harrowing story of survival is woven into the author's account of his tortured relationship with his aging father. Against the backdrop of guilt brought by survival they stage a normal life of small arguments & unhappy visits. This astonishing retelling of our century's grisliest news is a story of survival not only of Vladek but of the children who survive even the survivors. " Maus" studies the bloody pawprints of history & tracks its meaning for all of us. This combined definitive edition

Includes:: " Maus I: A Survivor's Tale" & " Maus II". Art Spiegelman is a contributing editor & artist for the " New Yorker". His drawings & prints have been exhibited in museums & galleries around the world. He won the Pulitzer Prize for " Maus" & a Guggenheim fellowship. It was also nominated for the National Book Critics Award. His other books include: " Breakdowns: From Maus to Now an Anthology of Strips"; " The Wild Party"; " Open Me I'm A Dog"; " Jack Cole & Plastic Man: Forms Stretched to Their Limits"; " In the Shadow of No Towers"; " Breakdowns: Portrait of the Artist as a Young!"; " Be a Nose"; " Jack & the Box" & " Meta Maus". He lives in New York."