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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. Eisner produced two sequels set in the same tenement: A Life Force in 1988, and Dropsie Avenue in 1995. Though the ...
- Will Eisner
- 1978
Jan 1, 1978 · ‘A Contract with God and Other Tenement Stories’ written and illustrated by Will Eisner, one of the giants in the sequential arts arena, is a perfectly executed graphic novel, which provides the reader a peek at the American experience during the early 1930s.
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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
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
Oct 19, 2023 · 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.
Now he revisits the tenement life of the depression years in a powerful collection of graphic stories about people struggling to survive and make their way upward. Meet Fromme Hersh, who makes a contract with God…
