Hardcover In the Shadow of No Towers Book

ISBN: 0375423079

ISBN13: 9780375423079

In the Shadow of No Towers

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For the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Maus, the terrorist attacks of September 11th were both highly personal and intensely political. In the Shadow of No Towers is a masterful and moving account of the events and aftermath of that tragic day. Spiegelman and his family bore witness to the attacks in their lower Manhattan neighborhood: his teenage daughter had started school directly below the towers days earlier, and they had lived in the area for years. But the horrors they survived that morning were only the beginning for Spiegelman, as his anguish was quickly displaced by fury at the U.S. government, which shamelessly co-opted the events for its own preconceived agenda. He responded in the way he knows best. In an oversized, two-page-spread format that echoes the scale of the earliest newspaper comics (which Spiegelman says brought him solace after the attacks), he relates his experience of the national tragedy in drawings and text that convey--with his singular artistry and his characteristic provocation, outrage, and wit--the unfathomable enormity of the event itself, the obvious and insidious effects it had on his life, and the extraordinary, often hidden changes that have been enacted in the name of post-9/11 national security and that have begun to undermine the very foundation of American democracy. This description may be from another edition of this product.

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0375423079

ISBN13:9780375423079

Release Date:September 2004

Publisher:Pantheon

Length:42 Pages

Weight:2.90 lbs.

Dimensions:14.6" x 0.9" x 10.0"

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Rated 5 stars
Great Graphic Representation

By Thriftbooks.com User, August 11, 2005

For anyone frustrated by our nation's response to 9/11, this book is a fresh and welcome perspective. Spiegelman captures the confusion and disbelief felt that day by anyone who witnessed the terrible tragedy of the destruction of the World Trade Center. He also includes a history lesson about how comics relate to journalism. From the author of Maus, and Maus II, here is another graphic masterpiece.

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An Extraordinary Chronicle Of Our TIme

By Thriftbooks.com User, October 2, 2004

I was deeply moved by Art Spiegelman's "In The Shadow Of No Towers" before I even opened the book. As a Manhattanite, the World Trade Center's twin towers used to be my New York City lodestone. With my lousy sense of direction, I always knew where I was by marking my location in relation to the two buildings, soaring skyward, so visible above everything else. Even now, three years after 9/11, I sometimes forget and look towards...

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A 9/11 Eyewitness

By Thriftbooks.com User, September 27, 2004

A couple days ago I had the pleasure of seeing Art Spiegelman at a lecture/signing. Despite the fact that I was exhausted from a long day at work, I was pleased to find that Mr. Spiegelman is a highly entertaining speaker. During the hour he spoke on his new book, In the Shadow of No Towers, I was completely absorbed. Needless to say, the book itself is excellent. It's oversize format mirrors the size of a newspaper as...

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Pure Catharsis

By Thriftbooks.com User, September 9, 2004

Art Spiegelman's In the Shadow of No Towers came out yesterday. I've been waiting for this release for over a year, and made it a point to head up to our local Barnes and Noble to buy it straightaway. Got home with it and put it aside, I had my own strip to pencil, but once I got the pencilling done, I picked up Spiegelman's book and began reading. These pages were originally published in broadsheet format, and that format...

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