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CaSTErman, 2004. A French language edition of Art Spiegelman's " In the Shadows of NoThe author's nonfiction account of 9/11 in graphic-novel form. Destined to be a 21st-century classic. One of the most important literary and artistic events of the year 2004. A stunningly beautiful production by Art Spiegelman: Oversize-volume format. A very tall and thick book. Pictorial hard boards with white titles and facsimile of the author's signature on the cover and metallic-silver titles on the spine, as issued. The "black-on-black" cover design, whose original version appeared in The New Yorker Magazine, is one of the most brilliant renditions of the fallen Towers ever: The Twin Towers are printed in black glossy paper and pasted on the black matte-paper cover. Graphic art and text by Art Spiegelman. Interspersed with striking reproductions of classic 19th-century comic strips. Each page is printed on very thick stock paper to the very highest standards. Without DJ, as issued. Presents the graphic artist's newest creation: A nonfiction account by a world-class pessimist. Spiegelman believes the world ended on September 11, 2001. It is merely as a formality that some people continue to go about their daily lives as if it didn't. He provides a hair-raising account of his family's frantic efforts to locate one another on September 11 as well as a morbidly hilarious survey of his sense of existential doom. The book is a blistering attack against the Bush Administration and, as only Spiegelman can pull it off, an erudite meditation on the history of the American comic strip, which was born during the newspaper circulation wars of the 1890's, right beside the World Trade Center site. The result is a work of moral poise and artistic equilibrium: "There's a very strong political dimension on all the pages as my project changed from being personally anecdotal to responding to a hijacking that was hijacked by America to pursue an agenda that was already in place when the Bush cabal took over". Another masterpiece from "one of America's national treasures" (Susan Sontag). "After all, disaster is my muse" (Art Spiegelman). Towers" in the same original format.. First French Edition. Near Fine.