A Contract with God and Other Tenement Stories (The Contract With God Trilogy #1)

Meet ... Frimme Hersh who has a contract with God, only God has violated the terms. Eddie, the street singer, who meets a failed opera soprano one drunken day. Scuggs, the brutal super, who is seduced into a mortal struggle. Beautiful Goldie, who seeks riches in the country. And Willie, who learns a wide-eyed lesson about sex and violence. Will Eisner, creator of The Spirit, is an outstanding innovator in the field of narrative art. In this ground-breaking graphic novel, he recalls tenement life in 1930s New York. Eisner powerfully presents four dramas in a unique format that transcends anything that has come before. "Eisner was not only ahead of his times; the present times are still catching up to him." --John Updike A revolutionary novel, A Contract with God re-creates the neighbourhood of Will Eisner's youth through a quartet of four interwoven stories. Expressing the joy, exuberance, tragedy, and drama of life on the mythical Dropsie Avenue of the Bronx, A Contract with God is a monumental achievement, a must in the library of any graphic novel fan.