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A Contract with God and Other Tenement Stories is a graphic novel by American cartoonist Will Eisner published in 1978. The book's short story cycle revolves around poor Jewish characters who live in a tenement in New York City .
- Will Eisner
- 1978
Set in the Bronx's fictional tenement neighborhood during the 1930s, "A Contract With God" opens with the eponymous first story, where Frimme Hersh, a religious man, laments the loss of his daughter to a deadly disease.
Aug 2, 2017 · During his journey to America, Hersh had written a contract with God on a flat stone, which he carried until the period of ritual mourning for Rachele had ceased. He spits on the contract, raging at God, the immemorial questions of why innocents die and good deeds go unrewarded, receiving, as always, no answer.
- John Repp
Feb 28, 2017 · A Contract With God is a groundbreaking work, not least because it portrays the lives of ordinary people — in various states of depression, apathy, romance and bawdiness — living on a single...
- W.W. Norton UK
Jan 1, 1978 · This is the first story of the four, centered around a man who made a contract with God, where he would do good deeds in exchange for God's protection. The hole story is framed like a story-with-a-moral one could find in holly scripture of Abrahamic religions.
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May 1, 2017 · A Contract With God explores the everyday extremes of human experience through the tenement building at 55 Dropsie Avenue. Residents strive, struggle, and schlep through the graphic short...
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Sep 4, 2024 · In A Contract with God and Other Tenement Stories, Will Eisner masterfully captures the struggles and triumphs of individuals living in the tenements of the Bronx. Through his poignant storytelling and evocative illustrations, he explores themes of faith, morality, poverty, and human connection.
