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  <title><![CDATA[Contract With God]]></title>
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  <default_description>Four powerful dramas recall tenement life in 1930s New York--an absolute must for fans of Bernard Malamud, Philip Roth,and Isaac Singer.  The storytelling is straightforward: sometimes heart warming, sometimes heart breaking. It's printed in a single sepia-colored ink, which adds to the nostalgic feel of the book and includes &quot;A Contract with God,&quot; &quot;The Street Singer,&quot; &quot;The Supper,&quot; and &quot;Cookalein.&quot;  </default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1978</original_publication_year>
  <original_title>Contract With God</original_title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Will Eisner]]></name>
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  <date_added>Wed Nov 26 21:21:23 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Nov 26 21:31:47 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is intense. The storytelling is strong and is matched with expressive art. Among other things, I appreciated the use of space: the arrangement of panels and the interplay of lettering and drawing. The subject matter, the characters, the setting make this a substantial collection of tales--real ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38736701">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Jul 14 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Jun 26 07:20:35 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Jul 23 08:09:39 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this for a course I'm taking at the local library in July about Jewish literature, identity and imagination - the course is being taught solely through graphic novels.  So far, the course is terrible, but this book was intriguing.  Since I'm not Jewish, I didn't have a ton of context behind m...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/25534887">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="16880518">
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[fans of the non-violent sides of Stray Bullets and Scorcese]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Mar 03 00:41:44 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Mar 03 00:56:45 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Considered to be the first graphic novel, this tells the story - in 4 parts - of New York circa the Great Depression. The characters are caricatures of lives from Eisner's past, and while it is a primarily Jewish neighborhood, I think anyone with a brain and heart pumping blood, etc can identify wit...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16880518">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="3651066">
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  <read_at>Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Jul 27 09:51:52 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Jul 27 09:59:08 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Eisner himself admits in his multiple introductions to this volume that &quot;A Contract With God&quot; was in some ways an experiment which led him to develop the skills he'd use in a far more serious way on &quot;Dropsie Avenue.&quot;  &quot;Dropsie Avenue&quot; is indeed the superior work.<br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3651066">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="30090277">
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      <rating>3</rating>
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  <read_at>Fri Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Aug 13 19:19:42 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Aug 13 19:24:34 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm not very knowledgable when it comes to the graphic novel, but I've been helping our local public library on a program on Jewish literature and the form, and this was our first book, so we met last night for an utterly enjoyable discussion group. My own feelings were that the visuals were well su...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30090277">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="46954326">
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  <date_added>Fri Feb 20 08:42:27 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Feb 20 08:43:56 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[In the four short stories contained in A Contract With God, Eisner examines life in the 1930’s Bronx tenements that sprung up in New York after WWI. These neighborhoods accommodated the influx of immigrants and bred a close neighborliness ripe for mining stories. Eisner does this brilliantly.<br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46954326">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="64521086">
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  <read_at>Wed Jul 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Jul 22 09:24:52 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Jul 22 09:34:04 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read it in 45 minutes which means I probably missed a lot of the artistic details.  I liked his drawing style and his allusions (literally and visually.)  The whole concept of a contract with God was particularly interesting to think about regarding orthodoxy and true-believers.  I met someone I w...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64521086">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="26311591">
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  <date_added>Fri Jul 04 13:21:18 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Jul 04 13:22:59 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Huh well color me underwhelmed. I mean it's fine, the art is beautiful and the parables are reasonably clever (aside from the one about the Pedophilic Nazi Superintendent and the predatory girl that one plays like the strangest EC Comic ever written).<br/><br/>But well its all a little on the nose...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26311591">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="38244750">
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    <location><![CDATA[Sterling, VA]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Thu Jan 10 00:00:00 -0800 2002</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Nov 20 13:23:46 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Nov 20 13:26:38 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[As I got older and kept reading comics, I realized that I owed it to myself to check out Will Eisner.  One of these days I will get around to his series The Spirit, but the sheer volume of that work is fairly daunting.  A Contract With God, on the other hand, is regarded as one of the first and most...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38244750">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="46404034">
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    <name><![CDATA[Ryan]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Mississauga, Ontario, Canada]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Sun Feb 15 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Feb 15 07:45:48 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Feb 15 07:52:37 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Will Eisner is an interesting figure for me.  He's one of those names that always turns up whenever people talk about the most influential and important storytellers in the medium of graphic fiction, but at the same time, he's someone who I've never been able to understand the hype about, having rea...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46404034">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="50981878">
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    <name><![CDATA[Paige]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Pleasantville, NY]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Thu Mar 26 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Mar 30 18:55:40 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Apr 06 07:30:31 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[These were some fun, uplifting stories...just kidding.  These stories all share a bleakness that I only see in comics and graphic novels, and I can only attribute to the visceral impact of reading about something and seeing it played out before you.  <br/><br/>I'm interested in how Eisner compares...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50981878">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="56826139">
    <user id="907910">
    <name><![CDATA[Jason]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Pittsburgh, PA]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Sat May 30 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu May 21 00:01:43 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat May 30 12:45:41 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[One of the impressive things about this collection of vignettes is that it has, for the most part, a rising arc.  “The Super” and “The Street Singer” are good vignettes about pathetic characters.  Though they are isolated, just there to create scene, or stories he knew he had to write.  The ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56826139">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="24441852">
    <user id="16958">
    <name><![CDATA[Dan]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Seattle, WA]]></location>        
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[Graphic Novel Fans, Comic Afficionados, Jews]]></recommended_for>
  <recommended_by><![CDATA[Lee]]></recommended_by>
  <read_at>Mon Jun 16 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Jun 13 16:08:19 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Jun 16 13:33:44 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is credited with being the first graphic novel.  It is a collection of four stories, set during the 30s in the Tenements on the fictional Dropsie Ave in the Bronx.  The four stories are:<br/><br/>1) A Contract with God<br/>The story of a Hassidic Jew who's adopted daughter dies, partially au...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24441852">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="16161629">
    <user id="147818">
    <name><![CDATA[John]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[The United States]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Feb 23 07:21:08 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Mar 01 19:53:29 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[The black and white print pulls some of the childishness out of the blocky art style that was very similar to simple cartoons of its time. It alternates between panels and storybook-style pages, and the first story in particular has a very storybookish narrative, even though its subject matter is in...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16161629">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="20925366">
    <user id="1110862">
    <name><![CDATA[Gloria]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Oswego, IL]]></location>        
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      <rating>4</rating>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[Graphic novel enthusiasts]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Apr 24 16:58:44 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Apr 24 17:03:53 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[My first graphic novel is ... well, the first graphic novel. I accidentally stumbled upon this book which I learned is credited with launching the graphic novel genre. It compelling illustrates the lives of Jewish immigrants in New York during the Great Depression and war relocation years. It remind...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20925366">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="42060595">
    <user id="602631">
    <name><![CDATA[Edward]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Laramie, WY]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Mon Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Jan 05 22:23:22 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Jan 05 22:25:01 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Took part in a Jewish graphic novel reading group in the fall and this was the first.  From the same guy who gave us the Spirit (yes, like the movie).  This is one part of a trilogy and I can't wait to read the rest.  Deals with various people living in the New York City neighborhood of his youth.  ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42060595">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="53915875">
    <user id="1807685">
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    <body><![CDATA[Four true tragedies about a Bronx tenement during the Depression. It's really a masterpiece of a graphic novel. The cityscapes are spectacular, the perspectives clean, the graphic depiction of rain amazing. What they say about the text &amp; illustrations being one is true. Loved this book.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Considered the first &quot;graphic novel&quot; (published in 1977), this book is actually a series of four stories based on Eisner's memories growing up in a New York tenement. As with anything by Eisner, it's powerful and beautifully illustrated.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Amusing graphic novel with four different short stories with slightly twisted endings.  Apparently it's one of the first &quot;graphic novels&quot; that was touted as a graphic novel (and not a comic book) in 1978. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Eisner is a founding father of the graphic novel. This one from the 1970s tells the story of a Bronx tenement in the 1930s. Loved the characters. Want to know more about them. Is this a series?]]></body>
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