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City of Glass (New York Trilogy, 1) Paperback – July 31, 2000
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The highly acclaimed graphic novel adaptation of Paul Auster's classic City of Glass, featuring a new introduction by Art Spiegelman.
Quinn writes mysteries. The Washington Post has described him as a "post-existentialist private eye." An unknown voice on the telephone is now begging for his help, drawing him into a world and a mystery far stranger than any he ever created in print.
Adapted by Paul Karasik and David Mazzucchelli, with graphics by David Mazzucchelli, Paul Auster's groundbreaking, Edgar Award-nominated masterwork, the first in the New York Trilogy, has been astonishingly transformed into a new visual language.
"[This graphic novel] is, surprisingly, not just a worthy supplement to the novel, but a work of art that fully justifies its existence on its own terms."--The Guardian
- Print length144 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- Publication dateJuly 31, 2000
- Dimensions5.56 x 0.36 x 8.32 inches
- ISBN-109780312423605
- ISBN-13978-0312423605
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About the Author
Paul Karasik contributed to City of Glass from Picador.
David Mazzucchelli is an acclaimed comic artist, best known for his collaborations with Frank Miller on Batman and Daredevil, his adaptation of Paul Auster's novel City of Glass, and his graphic novel Asterios Polyp.
Born in Stockholm in 1948, Art Spiegelman was the first comics artist to win the Pulitzer Prize, which he received for his groundbreaking bestseller Maus. He coedited Raw, and his comics have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Playboy, and Harper’s. He has been named one of the 100 Most Influential People by Time, elected to the Art Director Club’s Hall of Fame, made a Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 2005 (promoted to Officier in 2012), and played himself on The Simpsons. In 2011, Spiegelman was elected president of the Angoulême International Comics Festival and was awarded the Grand Prix of the Festival. He lives in New York City.
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- ASIN : 0312423608
- Publisher : Picador; First Edition (July 31, 2000)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 144 pages
- ISBN-10 : 9780312423605
- ISBN-13 : 978-0312423605
- Item Weight : 2.31 pounds
- Dimensions : 5.56 x 0.36 x 8.32 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #153,248 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #171 in Literary Graphic Novels (Books)
- #298 in Mystery Graphic Novels
- #10,228 in Literary Fiction (Books)
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About the authors
David Mazzucchelli has been making comics his whole life. Known chiefly for his collaborations - with Frank Miller on seminal Batman and Daredevil stories, and with Paul Karasik on an adaptation of Paul Auster's novel, City of Glass - he began publishing his own stories in 1991 in his anthology magazine, Rubber Blanket. Since then his short comics have been published in books and magazines around the world. Asterios Polyp is his first graphic novel.
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Customers find the story engaging with its depth and rich symbolism. They appreciate the visual style and pacing, which is beautifully illustrated and enriches the work without distracting from it. The book is described as profound yet not too heavy.
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Customers find the story suspenseful and profound. They appreciate the allusions, symbolism, puns, linguistic twists, irony, and quick syntax of detective fiction. The story is described as chilling and complex, with a frightening message about modern life.
"...This adaptation is suspenseful and thankfully it's short so it's easy to finish in one or two readings...." Read more
"...But just as he did an outstanding job to adapt his style to the BATMAN story, MAZZUCCHELLI did a great job for CITY OF GLASS...." Read more
"...name speaks volumes about the craft of the author; the quick syntax of detective fiction when Quinn is Auster is beautifully reminiscent of Phillip..." Read more
"Paul Karasik's graphic novel is as brilliant, complex, and multi-layered as Paul Auster's CITY OF GLASS...." Read more
Customers appreciate the visual style of the book. They find it visually appealing and a masterful storytelling through imagery. The images enhance the work without distracting from it, and the author seamlessly integrates words and pictures into one another.
"...If you're looking for something short, suspenseful, and well-illustrated, look no further...." Read more
"...is condensed but very little depth is sacrificed, and the images manage to enrich the work without distracting from its ideas...." Read more
"...at expressing the main characters depression. The art is very simple..." Read more
"...Stillman and Auster makes me smile with joy that an author encapsulated the form so subtlely and let the audience 'get it' on their own...." Read more
Customers appreciate the book's pacing. They find it complex and multi-layered, similar to Paul Auster's City of Glass. The story is described as great for that book.
"...to adapt his style to the BATMAN story, MAZZUCCHELLI did a great job for CITY OF GLASS...." Read more
"...syntax of detective fiction when Quinn is Auster is beautifully reminiscent of Phillip Roth; the Socratic philosophical dialogue between Stillman..." Read more
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- Reviewed in the United States on December 20, 2012I ordered City of Glass after LOVING Mazzucchelli's Asterios Polyp. I read Asterios shortly after its release and multiple times since then, as has everyone in my family and my girlfriend since I insisted (strongly) that everyone read Asterios Polyp. I heard about City of Glass on a blog somewhere after reading about David Mazzucchelli and though I had wanted to read it earlier, it took about half a year before I purchased this book and read it.
Everyone should read this book. Everyone.
Karasik and Mazzucchelli do an incredible job with this comic book. I have not read the original Auster novel and though I might pick it up sometime, I'm very content with where I stand having read this adaptation. The illustrations are simple and really quite perfect. There's one particular page near the beginning of the book that is quite possibly the single best page I've ever read in any comic.
The story itself is complex but easy to follow and can best be understood as a modern day Don Quixote, which itself is alluded to in this book. This adaptation is suspenseful and thankfully it's short so it's easy to finish in one or two readings. I saw a discussion of Identity as the main theme, with various metafictional ideas thrown in. The movie that most easily comes to mind is Ingmar Bergman's Persona.
If you're looking for something short, suspenseful, and well-illustrated, look no further. Purchase this now and be amazed by the wonderful work that Karasik and Mazzucchelli have done. Enjoy!
- Reviewed in the United States on April 30, 2010As much as I love the original novel, this version may very well be an improvement. The prose is condensed but very little depth is sacrificed, and the images manage to enrich the work without distracting from its ideas.
Paul Karasik and David Mazzucchelli use film noir as a springboard for their visual style, much as Auster uses detective fiction as a springboard for the plot of his novel, but what's really surprising is how well the artists keep up even as Auster plunges into purely cerebral territory. There are passages in the book that must have kept the artists awake many a night: Peter Stillman's almost indecipherable speech near the beginning which goes on for almost ten pages, and later conversations with the elder Peter Stillman about the nature of language, for example. With no visual clues to draw on, they somehow manage to give these scenes a visual life of their own, matching the words to parades of symbolic imagery. The atmosphere created - dark, lonely, paranoid - is much more powerful than that of the novel's, although the novel is also great on its own merits and certainly worth reading.
It's apparent on every page that an extraordinary amount of care and consideration has been put into this adaptation. In fact, I'd like to see more novels adapted in this manner. If it can be done for "City of Glass," it can be done for just about anything.
- Reviewed in the United States on February 22, 2010City of glass is a absolutely amazing piece of work. Auster Does a great job
at expressing the main characters depression. The art is very simple
which is a amazing contrast to what the theme of the book is, very
complex. which in and of its self is pretty amazing. The art is simply
drawn, but is very well thought out. There are scenes in the book where
the main character,Quinn is hearing the drowning of a mentally ill man telling
a story and while he's doing this, you see the pictures of what the man
is taking about to further emphasize how mental ill he is.
Quinn is a detective, but not really. He just thinks hes
one, he use to write crime fiction but after his wife and kid died he
just stop. One day Quinn started getting wrong number calls about a
detective and one day a call came in and he just pretended to be the
detective they were confusing him for. In his mind he begain to creat
this character that was a detective.
He takes a case to protect a mental ill man that had been tortured by
his father. His father is coming out of prison soon because of incident
years ago that involved the him (the incident that left him mentally ill) The
man's Wife wants Quinn to find him at a train station and follow him and
see what he does.
After finding the old man, he begins to talk to him, what he finds out
will change the entire story for okay to simply fascinating.
- Reviewed in the United States on June 22, 2009I bought it after I found it on Amazon.com when I tried to find out what David MAZZUCCHELLI was up to these days. MAZZUCCHELLI I knew for his work on BATMAN: YEAR ONE (1989). It is without a doubt the best BATMAN book I ever read. CITY OF GLASS is nothing like BATMAN: YEAR ONE. Frank MILLER wrote BATMAN: YEAR ONE. Paul AUSTER wrote CITY OF GLASS (I knew AUSTER for some of his novels and for SMOKE, a movie he directed). But just as he did an outstanding job to adapt his style to the BATMAN story, MAZZUCCHELLI did a great job for CITY OF GLASS. The story in itself is quite chilling and somehow bears a frightening message about modern urban life. Just as BATMAN: YEAR ONE, this little book you'll remember.
Top reviews from other countries
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El producto que me llego ya estaba usado, se ve que estaba bien cuidado pero bastante usado de las orillas.Reviewed in Mexico on April 14, 2023
3.0 out of 5 stars Producto usado.
El libro es muy bueno pero no me gusto que haya estado usado.
- Allan CuttsReviewed in the United Kingdom on June 13, 2021
5.0 out of 5 stars Good Grown Up Graphic Novel
Very clever.
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YusReviewed in Germany on March 14, 2021
4.0 out of 5 stars Englisch Buch
Wir mussten es für die Schule bzw. Homeschooling kaufen. Bis auf die lange Wartezeit der Lieferung ist es ok.
- S BhattacharjeeReviewed in India on October 11, 2017
5.0 out of 5 stars Ten star graphic novel
I loved the novel. Had been planning to get hold of the graphic novel for a long time indeed. Took the plunge and got it this time. The black and white images speak Auster's imagination and vision clearly. Karasik and Mazzucchelli are incredible. Finished it in an hour.
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ArnaudReviewed in France on June 16, 2016
5.0 out of 5 stars Une des meilleures BD de tous les temps
Excellente adaptation du roman de Paul Auster ! Magnifique. Cela faisait longtemps que je n'avais pas pris autant de plaisir à lire une BD.