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For Art Spiegelman, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Maus , the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 were both highly personal and intensely political. In the Shadow of No Towers , his first new book of comics since the groundbreaking Maus , is a masterful and moving account of the events and aftermath of that tragic day. Spiegelman and his family bore witness to the attacks in their lower Manhattan neighborhood: his teenage daughter had started school directly below the towers days earlier, and they had lived in the area for years. But the horrors they survived that morning were only the beginning for Spiegelman, as his anguish was quickly displaced by fury at the U.S. government, which shamelessly co-opted the events for its own preconceived agenda. He responded in the way he knows best. In an oversized, two-page-spread format that echoes the scale of the earliest newspaper comics (which Spiegelman says brought him solace after the attacks), he relates his experience of the national tragedy in drawings and text that convey--with his singular artistry and his characteristic provocation, outrage, and wit--the unfathomable enormity of the event itself, the obvious and insidious effects it had on his life, and the extraordinary, often hidden changes that have been enacted in the name of post-9/11 national security and that have begun to undermine the very foundation of American democracy.

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PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group

ISBN-100375423079

ISBN-139780375423079

eBay Product ID (ePID)30462325

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Book TitleIn the Shadow of No Towers

Number of Pages42 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicForm / Comic Strips & Cartoons, Literary, United States / 21st Century, Alternative History, Historical

Publication Year2004

IllustratorYes

GenreHistory, Humor, Fiction

AuthorArt Spiegelman

Book SeriesPantheon Graphic Novels, Pantheon Graphic Library

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height0.9 in

Item Weight47.8 Oz

Item Length14.5 in

Item Width10.1 in

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Reviews"Art Spiegelmanâ€¦to the comics world is a Michelangelo and a Medici both, an influential artist who is also an impresario and an enabler of others...[Maus's] great innovationunmatched and possibly unmatchablewas in its combination of style and subjectâ€¦.It would be almost impossible to overstate the influence ofMausamong other artists." New York Times Magazine "Spiegelman has become one ofThe New Yorker's most sensational artists, in recent years drawing illustrations for covers that are meant not just to be plainly understood but also to reach up and tattoo your eyeballs with images....From his Holocaust saga [Maus] in which Jewish mice are exterminated by Nazi cats, to theThe New Yorkercovers guaranteed to offend, to a wild party that ends in murder: Art Spiegelman's cartoons don't fool around." Los Angeles Times "A startling and provocative work." -Newsday "For one moment on an otherwise perfect fall day in Manhattan, time stood absolutely still, and since then history has rushed past too quickly for any artist to keep up. This disjunction between experience and understanding givesIn the Shadow of No Towerssomething so much more than a linear narrative: It is a love letter to a city that this artist, no matter his fears, could not bring himself to leave." -Paper Magazine "Like Maus, Spiegelman's Pulitzer-winning graphic novel about the Holocaust, Shadow brilliantly captures incendiary history through a personal story - in this case, of the artist affirming his choice to be a "rooted" cosmopolitan." -GQ "A posttraumatic masterpiece." -O Magazine "This is a powerful and quirky work of visual storytelling by a master comics artist." -Publisher's Weekly(starred review) "You don't have to be a comics aficionado to see that Spiegelman has done a superb job of capturing the tragic absurdity of life in New York City on 9/11 and for months thereafter." -Newsweek From the Hardcover edition., "Art Spiegelmanâ€¦to the comics world is a Michelangelo and a Medici both, an influential artist who is also an impresario and an enabler of others...[ Maus 's] great innovationunmatched and possibly unmatchablewas in its combination of style and subjectâ€¦.It would be almost impossible to overstate the influence of Maus among other artists." New York Times Magazine "Spiegelman has become one of The New Yorker 's most sensational artists, in recent years drawing illustrations for covers that are meant not just to be plainly understood but also to reach up and tattoo your eyeballs with images....From his Holocaust saga [ Maus ] in which Jewish mice are exterminated by Nazi cats, to the The New Yorker covers guaranteed to offend, to a wild party that ends in murder: Art Spiegelman's cartoons don't fool around." Los Angeles Times "A startling and provocative work." - Newsday "For one moment on an otherwise perfect fall day in Manhattan, time stood absolutely still, and since then history has rushed past too quickly for any artist to keep up. This disjunction between experience and understanding gives In the Shadow of No Towers something so much more than a linear narrative: It is a love letter to a city that this artist, no matter his fears, could not bring himself to leave." - Paper Magazine "Like Maus, Spiegelman's Pulitzer-winning graphic novel about the Holocaust, Shadow brilliantly captures incendiary history through a personal story - in this case, of the artist affirming his choice to be a "rooted" cosmopolitan." -GQ "A posttraumatic masterpiece." -O Magazine "This is a powerful and quirky work of visual storytelling by a master comics artist." - Publisher's Weekly (starred review) "You don't have to be a comics aficionado to see that Spiegelman has done a superb job of capturing the tragic absurdity of life in New York City on 9/11 and for months thereafter." -Newsweek, "Art Spiegelman...to the comics world is a Michelangelo and a Medici both, an influential artist who is also an impresario and an enabler of others...[ Maus 's] great innovationunmatched and possibly unmatchablewas in its combination of style and subject....It would be almost impossible to overstate the influence of Maus among other artists." New York Times Magazine "Spiegelman has become one of The New Yorker 's most sensational artists, in recent years drawing illustrations for covers that are meant not just to be plainly understood but also to reach up and tattoo your eyeballs with images....From his Holocaust saga [ Maus ] in which Jewish mice are exterminated by Nazi cats, to the The New Yorker covers guaranteed to offend, to a wild party that ends in murder: Art Spiegelman's cartoons don't fool around." Los Angeles Times "A startling and provocative work." - Newsday "For one moment on an otherwise perfect fall day in Manhattan, time stood absolutely still, and since then history has rushed past too quickly for any artist to keep up. This disjunction between experience and understanding gives In the Shadow of No Towers something so much more than a linear narrative: It is a love letter to a city that this artist, no matter his fears, could not bring himself to leave." - Paper Magazine "Like Maus, Spiegelman's Pulitzer-winning graphic novel about the Holocaust, Shadow brilliantly captures incendiary history through a personal story in this case, of the artist affirming his choice to be a "rooted" cosmopolitan." -GQ "A posttraumatic masterpiece." -O Magazine "This is a powerful and quirky work of visual storytelling by a master comics artist." - Publisher's Weekly (starred review) "You don't have to be a comics aficionado to see that Spiegelman has done a superb job of capturing the tragic absurdity of life in New York City on 9/11 and for months thereafter." -Newsweek

Dewey Edition22

Publication Date2004-09-07

Lccn2004-043870

Target AudienceTrade

Dewey Decimal741.5/973

Lc Classification NumberPn6727.S6i5 2004