num_pages: 196
description: Meet Frimme Hersh who has a contract with God, only God has violated the terms.... Eddie, the street singer, who meets a failed opera soprano one drunken day... Scuggs, the brutal super, who is seduced into a mortal struggle... Beautiful Goldie, who seeks riches in the country ... And Willie, who learns a wide-eyed lesson about sex and violence... Will Eisner, creator of The Spirit, is an outstanding innovator in the field of narrative art. In this ground-breaking graphic novel, he recalls tenement life in 1930s New York. Eisner powerfully presents four dramas in a unique format that transcends anything that has come before.
language: English
title: "A Contract with God" and Other Tenement Stories
titlecomplete: "A Contract with God" and Other Tenement Stories
genres: Classics, Bande Dessinée, Graphic Novels, Short Stories, Jewish, Graphic Novels Comics, Comics, Comic Book, Historical Fiction, Fiction
ratings_count: 12740
places: New York (State), Bronx, New York City, New York
series: The Contract With God Trilogy
awards: awardedAt: 694252800000
name: Harvey Awards
category: Best Graphic Album of Original Material, awardedAt: 694252800000
name: Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards
category: Best Graphic Album: New
publisher: Titan Books