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<div style="padding:0px" class="gmail-col-md-9 gmail-col-sm-9 gmail-col-xs-12"><h1 class="gmail-title">A Contract with God and Other Stories of Dropsie Avenue</h1><h2 class="gmail-subtitle">A Norton Critical Edition</h2></div><div class="gmail-nopadding gmail-col-md-3 gmail-col-sm-3 gmail-col-xs-12"><div class="gmail-badgeContainer gmail-col-md-12 gmail-col-sm-12 gmail-col-xs-9"><div class="gmail-badgeInfo">First Edition</div></div></div><div class="gmail-row"><div style="display:flex" class="gmail-nopadding gmail-col-md-12 gmail-col-xs-12"><div style="width:100%" class="gmail-"><hr class="gmail-contributorLineTop"><div class="gmail-contributor"><div id="gmail-ContributorContent"><div><span>by <a class="gmail-ContributorfirstNameURL" href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://wwnorton.com/author/56379/jaredgardner__;!!KGKeukY!wITopz5xiZuJ6WvOQpTp6gMd5Zu7CaHaRBH0mts-Kx1uj0r3TJCcqDYVPK7oqLcvNtpgHhgWBiw7Bb1bTGuJhrpxDQM$"> Jared Gardner</a><span> (Editor)</span>, </span><span><a class="gmail-ContributorfirstNameURL" href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://wwnorton.com/author/EISNERWILL/willeisner__;!!KGKeukY!wITopz5xiZuJ6WvOQpTp6gMd5Zu7CaHaRBH0mts-Kx1uj0r3TJCcqDYVPK7oqLcvNtpgHhgWBiw7Bb1bTGuJVTzqvRE$"> Will Eisner</a><span> (Author)</span></span></div></div><hr class="gmail-contributorLineBottom"></div></div></div><div class="gmail-nopadding gmail-col-md-12 gmail-col-xs-12"><p class="gmail-shortDescription"><b><span>“An
essential introductory collection to comics’ most essential figure.
Weaving together the works that helped assure comics’ status as a
literary medium, the anthology combines Eisner’s slice-of-life
masterpieces with an incisive editorial introduction and carefully
curated scholarship to provide crucial insight into how comics work,
what they mean, and what they can do.” —Jeremy Dauber, Columbia
University and author of <em>American Comics: A History</em></span></b></p><p class="gmail-shortDescription"><b><span><em><br></em></span></b></p><p class="gmail-shortDescription"><b><span><em>
<span></span></em></span></b></p><p><b><em>This Norton Critical Edition includes: </em></b></p><ul><li><b><em> Jared Gardner’s insightful introduction and explanatory notes. </em></b></li><li><b><em>
Generous selections from four of Will Eisner’s major graphic novels
and story collections, carefully chosen with student readers in mind. </em></b></li><li><b><em> Will Eisner’s interviews and published writing on comics and the graphic novel genre from 1978 to 2000. </em></b></li><li><b><em> Thirteen wide-ranging reviews and assessments of Eisner’s works. </em></b></li><li><b><em> Critical essays by Andrew J. Kunka, Paul Williams, Jeremy Dauber, Greg M. Smith, and Derek Parker Royal. </em></b></li><li><b><em> A chronology of Will Eisner’s life and work and a selected bibliography.</em></b></li></ul><b><em>
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