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Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History (Maus, #1)

Art Spiegelman

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Jan 04, 2020 Pam rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: 2020-books-read, poland, graphic-novel

AUTHOR Spiegleman, Art
TITLE Maus I : A Survivor's Tale
DATE READ 01/04/19
RATING 4/B
FIRST SENTENCE It was summer, I remember.
GENRE/ PUB DATE/PUBLISHER / # OF Graphic Novel-memoir/1996/Pantheon/159 pgs
SERIES/STAND ALONE #1
CHALLENGE Good Reads 2020 Reading Goal 5/120;
GROUP READ Reading Between the Vines
TIME/PLACE Late 1930's - 1940's Poland; 1970's NY
CHARACTERS Vladk Spiegleman/holocaust survivor and his son Art/cartoonist
COMMENTS Vladk is a holocaust survivor and to his son a bit of a cra ...more

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May 06, 2008 Katie rated it really liked it

Shelves: male-author, graphic-novels

this is the first graphic novel that i have read. i was kind of against them because i've never liked comics much... but this was actually really good. it was interesting to read something where my imagination wasn't making the pictures.

i really liked how the story jumped between the author's relationship with his father in the present and the father's experience during the holocaust. ...more

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