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Maus II : a survivor's tale : and here my troubles began Cover Image Book Book
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Maus II : a survivor's tale : and here my troubles began

Spiegelman, Art (Author).

Summary: A memoir of Vladek Spiegleman, a Jewish survivor of Hitler's Europe, and about his son, a cartoonist who tries to come to terms with his father, his story, and history. Cartoon format portrays Jews as mice, Nazis as cats. Using a unique comic-strip-as-graphic-art format, the story of Vladek Spiegelman's passage through the Nazi Holocaust is told in his own words. Acclaimed as a "quiet triumph" and a "brutally moving work of art," the first volume of Art Spiegelman's Maus introduced readers to Vladek Spiegelman. The story succeeds perfectly in shocking us out of any lingering sense of familiarity with the events described, approaching, as it does, the unspeakable through the diminutive. As the New York Times Book Review commented, "[it is] a remarkable feat of documentary detail and novelistic vividness...an unfolding literary event." This long-awaited sequel, subtitled And Here My Troubles Began, moves us from the barracks of Auschwitz to the bungalows of the Catskills. Genuinely tragic and comic by turns, it attains a complexity of theme and a precision of thought new to comics and rare in any medium. Maus ties together two powerful stories: Vladek's harrowing tale of survival against all odds, delineating the paradox of daily life in the death camps, and the author's account of his tortured relationship with his aging father. Vladek's troubled remarriage, minor arguments between father and son, and life's everyday disappointments are all set against a backdrop of history too large to pacify. At every level this is the ultimate survivor's tale--and that too of the children who somehow survive even the survivors.

Record details

  • ISBN: 0679729771
  • ISBN: 9780679729778
  • ISBN: 1417816422 (cloth)
  • ISBN: 9781417816422 (cloth)
  • ISBN: 9780394556550
  • ISBN: 0394556550
  • ISBN: 9780679729778 (pbk.)
  • ISBN: 0679729771 (pbk.)
  • Physical Description: 135 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Pantheon Books, [1991]

Content descriptions

General Note:
Cover title: And here my troubles began.
Formatted Contents Note: Mauschwitz -- Auschwitz (time flies) -- ...and here my troubles began ... -- Saved -- The second honeymoon.
Additional Physical Form available Note:
Also issued online.

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  • 12 of 12 copies available at SPARK Libraries.

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Bethel Tulpehocken Public Library YA SPI (Text) 33249024485736 Teen Graphic Novel Available -
Boyertown Community Library YA SPI (Text) 33249019583859 Teen Graphic Novel Available -
Brandywine Community Library SPI (Text) 33249021079128 Adult Graphic Novel Available -
Exeter Community Library SPI (Text) 33249023500659 Adult Graphic Novel Available -
Fleetwood Area Public Library YA SPI (Text) 33249024363594 Teen Graphic Novel Available -
Mifflin Community Library YA SPI (Text) 33249021166578 Teen Graphic Novel Available -
Muhlenberg Community Library YA SPI (Text) 33249018316236 Teen Graphic Novel Available -
RACC High Demand - D804.3 S66 1991 (Text)
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RACC Graphic - D804.3 .S66 1991 (Text) 33624024537498 Adult Graphic Non-fiction Available -
Sinking Spring Library SPI (Text) 33249021814243 Adult Graphic Novel Available -
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