{"product_id":"the-wild-party-isbn-9780375706431","title":"The Wild Party","description":"\u003cb\u003eArt Spiegelman's sinister and witty black-and-white drawings give charged new life to Joseph Moncure March's \u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eWild Party\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Spiegelman's drawings are like demonic woodcuts: every angle, line, and curve jumps out at you. Stylishness and brutishness are in perfect accord.\" —\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHere 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Wild Party\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\"\"\u003cb\u003eThe Wild Party\u003c\/b\u003e?. . . It's the book that made me want to be a writer.\"\u003cbr\u003e-- William Burroughs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Wild Party\u003c\/b\u003e may have begun as a dark Prohibition-era morality fable, but, thanks . . . to Spiegelman, it lives again as a funhouse mirror of current fears.\"\u003cbr\u003e-- \u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003eJoseph Moncure March was a poet, journalist and screenwriter best known for his two verse narratives, \u003cb\u003eThe Wild Party\u003c\/b\u003e and \u003cb\u003eThe Set-Up\u003c\/b\u003e, the story of a washed-up black boxer. An editor for \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e in the 1920s, he died in 1977.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eArt Spiegelman is the author of \u003cb\u003eMaus, A Survivor's Tale\u003c\/b\u003e, for which he received a special Pulitzer Prize in 1992. He was co-founder and editor of \u003ci\u003eRaw\u003c\/i\u003e, the acclaimed magazine \u003cbr\u003eof avant-garde comics, and is currently a staff artist for \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e and comix editor at \u003ci\u003eDetails\u003c\/i\u003e magazine. He is currently working on \u003ci\u003eCrime Doesn't Pay\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.Illustrated by Art Spiegelman","brand":"Pantheon","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46299960836325,"sku":"NP9780375706431","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780375706431.jpg?v=1767742217","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-wild-party-isbn-9780375706431","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}