Description

Author/Contributor(s):	Mazzucchelli, David
Publisher:	Pantheon
Date:	7/7/2009
Binding:	Hardcover
Condition:	NEW

The triumphant return of one of comics’ greatest talents, with an engrossing storyof one man’s search for love, meaning, sanity, and perfect architectural epic story long awaited, and well worth the wait.

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

As the story unfolds, moving between thepresent 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 now she’s gone. Did Asterios do something to drive her away? What has happenedto her? Is she even alive? All the questions will be answered, eventually.

In themeantime, we are enthralled by Mazzucchelli’s extraordinarily imagined world of brilliantlyconceived eccentrics, sharply observed social mores, and deftly depicted asides oneverything from design theory to the nature of human perception.

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