The Wild Party - (Pantheon Graphic Library) by Dangers (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>A graphic poem on an all-night party during the Roaring Twenties which ends in a murder. The book was banned in Boston when it was first published in 1928.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>Art Spiegelman's sinister and witty black-and-white drawings give charged new life to Joseph Moncure March's <i>The</i> <i>Wild Party</i>, a lost classic from 1928. The inventive and varied page designs offer perfect counterpoint to the staccato tempo of this hard-boiled jazz-age tragedy told in syncopated rhyming couplets.</b> <p/><b>Spiegelman's drawings are like demonic woodcuts: every angle, line, and curve jumps out at you. Stylishness and brutishness are in perfect accord. --<i>The New York Times</i></b> <p/>Here is a poem that can make even readers with no time for poetry stop dead in their tracks. Once read, large shards of this story of one night of debauchery will become permanently lodged in the brain. When <i>The Wild Party</i> was first published, Louis Untermeyer declared: It is repulsive and fascinating, vicious and vivacious, uncompromising, unashamed . . . and unremittingly powerful. It is an amazing tour de force.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"<b>The Wild Party</b>?. . . It's the book that made me want to be a writer."<br>-- William Burroughs <p/><b>The Wild Party</b> may have begun as a dark Prohibition-era morality fable, but, thanks . . . to Spiegelman, it lives again as a funhouse mirror of current fears."<br>-- <i>San Francisco Chronicle</i><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Joseph Moncure March was a poet, journalist and screenwriter best known for his two verse narratives, <b>The Wild Party</b> and <b>The Set-Up</b>, the story of a washed-up black boxer. An editor for <i>The New Yorker</i> in the 1920s, he died in 1977. <p/>Art Spiegelman is the author of <b>Maus, A Survivor's Tale</b>, for which he received a special Pulitzer Prize in 1992. He was co-founder and editor of <i>Raw</i>, the acclaimed magazine <br>of avant-garde comics, and is currently a staff artist for <i>The New Yorker</i> and comix editor at <i>Details</i> magazine. He is currently working on <i>Crime Doesn't Pay</i>, an opera libretto about the history of comics. He lives in New York City with his wife, Françoise Mouly, and their two children, Nadja and Dashiell.
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