num_pages: 224
description: Envisioning the first book of the bible like no one before him R. Crumb the legendary illustrator reveals here the story of Genesis in a profoundly honest and deeply moving way. Originally thinking that he would do a take off of Adam and Eve Crumb became so fascinated by the Bibles language a text so great and so strange that it lends itself readily to graphic depictions that he decided instead to do a literal interpretation using the text word for word in a version primarily assembled from the translations of Robert Alter and the King James bible.As Crumb writes in his introduction the stories of these people the Hebrews were something more than just stories. They were the foundation the source in writing of religious and political power handed down by God himself. Crumbs Book of Genesis the culmination of 5 years of painstaking work is a tapestry of detail and storytelling.
language: English
title: The Book of Genesis
publisher: W. W. Norton & Company