Asterios Polyp (Graphic Novel Englisch) Hardcover
Graphic Novel mit Gebrauchsspuren. Hardcover, Originalsprache Abholung bevorzugt, Versand zahlt KĂ€ufer. The triumphant return of one of comicsâ greatest talents, with an engrossing story of one manâs search for love, meaning, sanity, and perfect architectural proportions. An epic story long awaited, and well worth the wait. Meet Asterios Polyp: middle-aged, meagerly successful architect and teacher, aesthete and womanizer, whose life is wholly upended when his New York City apartment goes up in flames. In a tenacious daze, he leaves the city and relocates to a small town in the American heartland. But what is this âescapeâ really about? As the story unfolds, moving between the present and the past, we begin to understand this confounding yet fascinating character, and how heâs gotten to where he is. And isnât. And we meet Hana: a sweet, smart, first-generation Japanese American artist with whom he had made a blissful life. But now sheâs gone. Did Asterios do something to drive her away? What has happened to her? Is she even alive? All the questions will be answered, eventually. In the meantime, we are enthralled by Mazzucchelliâs extraordinarily imagined world of brilliantly conceived eccentrics, sharply observed social mores, and deftly depicted asides on everything from design theory to the nature of human perception. Asterios Polyp is David Mazzucchelliâs masterpiece: a great American graphic novel.