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Maus II : a survivor's tale : and here my troubles began / Art Spiegelman.

Summary:

"Acclaimed as a quiet triumph and a brutally moving work of art, the first volume of Art Spieglman's Maus introduced readers to Vladek Spiegleman, a Jewish survivor of Hitler's Europe, and his son, a cartoonist trying to come to terms with his father, his father's terrifying story, and History itself. Its form, the cartoon (the Nazis are cats, the Jews mice), succeeds perfectly in shocking us out of any lingering sense of familiararity with the events described, approaching, as it does, the unspeakable through the diminutive. This second volume, subtitled And Here My Troubles Began, moves us from the barracks of Auschwitz to the bungalows of the Catskills. Genuinely tragic and comic by turns, it attains a complexity of theme and a precision of thought new to comics and rare in any medium. Maus ties together two powerful stories: Vladek's harrowing tale of survival against all odds, delineating the paradox of daily life in the death camps, and the author's account of his tortured relationship with his aging father. At every level this is the ultimate survivor's tale - and that too of the children who somehow survive even the survivors." -- Goodreads.com

Record details

ISBN: 0394556550
ISBN: 9780679729778
ISBN: 9780394556550
ISBN: 0590477021
ISBN: 9780590477024
Physical Description: 135 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 24 cm
Publisher: New York : Pantheon Books, c1991.

Content descriptions

General Note:	Publisher, publishing date and paging may vary. Cover title: And here my troubles began. Chapters one through four were originally published in somewhat different form in Raw magazine between 1986 and 1991.
Formatted Contents Note:	Mauschwitz -- Auschwitz (time flies) -- ... and here my troubles began ... -- Saved -- The second honeymoon.
Target Audience Note:	Young Adult. NP Lexile
Study Program Information Note:	Accelerated Reader AR UG 3.1 2 70910.