Octavo. In Good plus condition contained in a plastic cover with a cardboard backing. Covers have mild shelving wear, mild warping on the front cover, bending wear along the front joint, mild wear along the edges, and mild wear along the spine head and tail edges. Textblock has mild wear along the edges and a black stain on the head edge. Signed flat by Paul Auster on the title page. Advanced Uncorrected Proof. Shelved Room C. 1386183. Special Collections. Seller Inventory # 1386183

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Title: CITY OF GLASS GRAPHIC NOVEL [Signed]

Publisher: Picador/ Henry Holt and Company, New York, NY

Publication Date: 2004

Binding: Softcover

Illustrator: David Mazzucchelli

Signed: Signed by Author(s)

Edition: First Picador Edition, First Printing.

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Synopsis:

From the creator of the highly acclaimed, widely successful graphic novels Maus and Maus II comes Neon Lit, an innovative series of graphic crime novels. First in the series is City of Glass, universally praised as a contemporary classic upon its publication in 1985. A film based on the novel is currently in pre-production.

Review:

I cannot possibly offer enough praise for David Mazzucchelli and Paul Karasik 's adaptation of City of Glass. While some critics found it to be a dry choice of books to turn into a comics, I think the interplay between image and text only heightens the original metafictional narrative. The treatment of the first speech by the crazy antagonist, Peter Stillman--in which the word balloons trail from random objects such as a broken television and a bottle of ink--is brilliant. Neon Lit: Paul Auster's City of Glass deftly illustrates why comics is a perfect format for exploring fictions about text: the words become visible objects of the story.

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