Berlin - by Jason Lutes (Paperback)
Similar Products
Product info
<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"Berlin is one of the great epics of the comics medium. Jason Lutes creates an intricate look at the German metropolis during the Jazz Age, seen through the eyes of its residents. Their lives intersect at the crossroads of kindness and crulty, love and hate, sex and death. The city of Berlin itself comes alive, with its smoke-filled salons, crumbling sidewalks, bustling train sations, and raucous nightclubs. During the Weimar Republic, Berlin was the progressive center of Europe, where creativity, political thought, and sexual liberty burned bright before being snuffed out under the boot heel of fascism. Devastatingly relevant and beautifully executed"--Back cover.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><b>Best of 2018 nods from the <i>Washington Post</i>, New York Public Library, <i>Globe and Mail, </i> <i>the Guardian</i>, and more!</b> <p/><b>The magic in <i>Berlin</i> is in the way Lutes conjures, out of old newspapers and photographs, a city so remote from him in time and space... [<i>Berlin</i> has] an ending so electrifying that I gasped.--<i>New York Times Book Review</i></b> <p/>During the past two decades, Jason Lutes has quietly created one of the masterworks of the graphic novel golden age<i>. Berlin</i> is one of the high-water marks of the medium: rich in its well-researched historical detail, compassionate in its character studies, and as timely as ever in its depiction of a society slowly awakening to the stranglehold of fascism. <p/><i>Berlin</i> is an intricate look at the fall of the Weimar Republic through the eyes of its citizens--Marthe Müller, a young woman escaping the memory of a brother killed in World War I, Kurt Severing, an idealistic journalist losing faith in the printed word as fascism and extremism take hold; the Brauns, a family torn apart by poverty and politics. Lutes weaves these characters' lives into the larger fabric of a city slowly ripping apart. <p/>The city itself is the central protagonist in this historical fiction. Lavish salons, crumbling sidewalks, dusty attics, and train stations: all these places come alive in Lutes' masterful hand. Weimar Berlin was the world's metropolis, where intellectualism, creativity, and sensuous liberal values thrived, and Lutes maps its tragic, inevitable decline. Devastatingly relevant and beautifully told, <i>Berlin</i> is one of the great epics of the comics medium.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>"With its rich sense of time and place, nuanced portrayal of individual destinies, precisely rendered imagery, and poetic expression of themes, Jason Lutes's <i>Berlin</i> is truly a masterful narrative."--<b>Amor Towles</b>, <i>A Gentleman in Moscow</i> <p/>"A watershed achievement--<i>Berlin</i> charted new territory for the graphic novel and comics at the same time, at once a story about artists trying to make art during the rise of the Nazis in Germany, and a bildungsroman of the first order. This landmark collection returns this story to us now when we need examples of how to stay human to each other in the face of a politics that turns friends into enemies--a newly necessary book."--<b>Alexander Chee</b>, <i>The Queen of the Night</i> <p/>"Lutes covers the cabaret scene, the struggles of the press and riots as the Nazis rise, and lives that seemed full of possibility are twisted by the grasping arms of the state... A modern classic."<b>--<i>The Guardian</i> Best Books of 2018</b> <p/>"<i>Berlin</i> reads like not just a masterwork but also a life's work."<b>--<i>The Washington Post</i>, 10 Best Graphic Novels of 2018<br></b><br>""Recommend" isn't a strong enough verb for conveying how badly you need to read Berlin... The stories that play out between those two bookends sway from the romantic to the apocalyptic and back again, and the intricate linework and oft-mind-blowing layouts are incomparable. For a reader who's white-knuckling it through our present period of social collapse, Berlin is a beacon of both warning and hope."<b>--<i>Vulture</i></b> <p/>"One of the most ambitious, important and fully-realized works of graphic literature yet created, a real masterpiece of both story and art."<b>--<i>Forbes</i></b></p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Jason Lutes</b> was born in New Jersey in 1967 and grew up reading American superhero and Western comics. In the late 1970s he discovered <i>Heavy Metal</i> magazine and the tabletop role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons, both of which proved major influences on his creative development. Lutes graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design with a BFA in illustration, and in 1993 he began drawing a weekly comics page called <i>Jar of Fools</i>for Seattle's <i>The Stranger</i>. Lutes lives in Vermont with his partner and two children, where he teaches comics at the Center for Cartoon Studies.
Price History
Cheapest price in the interval: 25.49 on October 22, 2021
Most expensive price in the interval: 25.49 on November 8, 2021
Price Archive shows prices from various stores, lets you see history and find the cheapest. There is no actual sale on the website. For all support, inquiry and suggestion messagescommunication@pricearchive.us