{"product_id":"american-splendor-and-more-american-splendor-the-life-and-times-of-harvey-pekar","title":"American Splendor and More American Splendor: The Life and Times of Harvey Pekar","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Harvey Pekar\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBrand:\u003c\/b\u003e Ballantine Books\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition:\u003c\/b\u003e First Edition\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber Of Pages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date:\u003c\/b\u003e 29-07-2003\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDetails:\u003c\/b\u003e The inspiration for the award-winning movie\nfrom HBO Films and Fine Line Features\n\nAMERICAN SPLENDOR\nThe Life and Times of Harvey Pekar\n\nTwo classic comic anthologies in one volume\n\nStories by Harvey Pekar\n\nIntroduction by R. Crumb\n\nArt by Kevin Brown, Gregory Budgett, Sean Carroll, Sue Cavey, R. Crumb, Gary Dumm, Val Mayerik, and Gerry Shamray\n\nThe classic collection of the comics that inspired the movie American Splendor, winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the 2003 Sundance Film Festival\n\nAmerican Splendor is the world’s first literary comic book. Cleveland native Harvey Pekar is a true American original. A V.A. hospital file clerk and comic book writer, Harvey chronicles the ordinary and mundane in stories both funny and touching. His dead-on eye for the frustrations and minutiae of the workaday world mix in a delicate balance with his insight into personal relationships. Pekar has been compared to Dreiser, Dostoevsky, and Lenny Bruce. But he is truly more than all of them—he is himself.\n\n“Mr. Pekar has . . . proven that comics can address the ambiguities of daily living, that like the finest fiction, they can hold a mirror up to life.”\n—The New York Times\n\n“[Pekar] has a vision that makes daily city life—a ride on the bus, a run-in with a boss, or simply buying bread—dramatic.”\n—Chicago Sun-Times\n\n“Simply stated, American Splendor is the most superb literary endeavor to come off the streets of Cleveland in decades.”\n—The Plain Dealer (Cleveland)\n\n“Mr. Pekar lets all of life flood into his panels: the humdrum and the heroic, the gritty and the grand.”\n—The New York Times Book Review\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEAN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780345468307\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguages:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding:\u003c\/b\u003e paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eItem Condition:\u003c\/b\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ballantine Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51753187803437,"sku":"FBA_1T47108","price":30.27,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0753\/5853\/5981\/files\/91M_p6umAtL.jpg?v=1768466785","url":"https:\/\/silkroadstore.us\/products\/american-splendor-and-more-american-splendor-the-life-and-times-of-harvey-pekar","provider":"Silk Road Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}