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| Original Title: | Asterios Polyp |
| ISBN: | 0307377326 (ISBN13: 9780307377326) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Asterios Polyp, Hana Sonnenschein, Stiff Major, Ursula Major, Willy Ilium |
| Setting: | United States of America |
| Literary Awards: | Harvey Awards for Best Graphic Album of Original Work & Best Letterer (for David Mazzucchelli) (2010), Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Graphic Novel/Comics (2009), Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards for Best Graphic Album–New (2010), Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Graphic Novel (2009) |
David Mazzucchelli
Hardcover | Pages: 344 pages Rating: 4.19 | 23653 Users | 1528 Reviews
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| Title | : | Asterios Polyp |
| Author | : | David Mazzucchelli |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 344 pages |
| Published | : | July 7th 2009 by Pantheon |
| Categories | : | Sequential Art. Graphic Novels. Comics. Fiction. Graphic Novels Comics. Comic Book. Art. Bande Dessinée |
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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.
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Ratings: 4.19 From 23653 Users | 1528 ReviewsCriticize Epithetical Books Asterios Polyp
This graphic novel deserves a place on the shelf alongside Fun Home and Persepolis--a novel about an architect who has never built anything, but is reknown for his abstract constructions, who finds himself homeless, perhaps intentionally, and goes out in the world to lose himself. the story toggles between his past, his overweening egotism, his failed relationship to a woman and to his career, and his current state of vagabondage, when he finds work with a compassionate auto mechanic, and isThis is the best graphic novel I've read in a long time. From the beginning scene-setting of Asterios' apartment with his Brewer chairs and whatnot ... man, I can't list all the things I loved about this book without basically just describing everything about it. The intertwined narrative threads with the slow reveal of the flashbacks; the beautiful characterisations (Hana's face shape under her hair, her outrageously large eyes and roundness totally expressing the character), all the
Artist/writer David Mazzucchelli has had one of the more twisted career paths of any artist I know. He began in conventional comics, becoming well-known illustrating Frank Miller's Daredevil, then he disappeared for awhile, emerging with an entirely new style. His new, fluid line was perfect for Miller's DC hit, Batman: Year One. Then Mazzucchelli dropped off the radar again. This time, he showed up illustrating a graphic novelization of Paul Auster's City of Glass: The Graphic Novel , a
Allow me to steal from Pete Holmes and say what would I have done if this book came out in the 90s, before we had "Really?!?"? When I got to the end, without that comfortable exclamation of frustrated disbelief, I would have had to raise my eyebrow so high that it might have flown off my head.Mostly Asterios Polyp is an amazing book, fusing different artistic styles that, no matter how showy, always advance the narrative, and has a plot that, while not as bold as something like Jimmy Corrigan,
This is hovering between a 4 and a 5 for me right now. Wow - really a sophisticated book. And can I just say that its so great to read a critiquely lauded graphic novel that is NOT a memoir. This was large in scope, nuanced in detail, and I think I need to read it again to grasp it all. The art was unexpected, with a mix of styles that really worked well together. Totally recommended to all my comic and literary fiction reading friends alike.
Wow. Just finished in one reading session this magical work of art. Together with "Daytripper", this is my all time favorite graphic novel. I don't have much to say about it, as I don't think I have rationalized it much yet: visually, it's extremely creative and exciting. Rich with inventions and ideas. The story reminded me of a Chinese saying: "Two thirds of what we see is behind our eyes", and a lot of this novel is about that crucial aspect of human existence. I see this as a love story, and
I know firsthand how obnoxious know-it-alls can be because I live with one (actually one & 1/2 at this point, as my son is currently in training) & I've certainly been one myself on many occasions. Paper architect Asterios Polyp is also a know-it-all. Theres a clear difference between just knowing something & knowing something to the exclusion of any other opinion & Asterios is firmly in the latter category. He doesn't really listen to his wife Hana because he assumes he's always
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