{"id":30076,"date":"2013-05-22T13:59:46","date_gmt":"2013-05-22T12:59:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/?p=30076"},"modified":"2013-05-22T14:00:51","modified_gmt":"2013-05-22T13:00:51","slug":"asterios-polyp-david-mazzucchelli-pantheon-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/?p=30076","title":{"rendered":"Asterios Polyp. David Mazzucchelli. Pantheon Books."},"content":{"rendered":"

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Asterios Polyp. David Mazzucchelli. Pantheon Books.<\/em><\/p>\n

The triumphant return of one of comics\u2019 greatest talents, with an engrossing story of one man\u2019s search for love, meaning, sanity, and perfect architectural proportions. An epic story long awaited, and well worth the wait.
\nMeet 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 \u201cescape\u201d really about?
\nAs the story unfolds, moving between the present and the past, we begin to understand this confounding yet fascinating character, and how he\u2019s gotten to where he is. And isn\u2019t. And we meet Hana: a sweet, smart, first-generation Japanese American artist with whom he had made a blissful life. But now she\u2019s 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.
\nIn the meantime, we are enthralled by Mazzucchelli\u2019s 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.
\nAsterios Polyp is David Mazzucchelli\u2019s masterpiece: a great American graphic novel<\/p>\n

Language : English
\nSize: 20 x 27 cm<\/p>\n

25.65 \u20ac
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