{"product_id":"asterios-polyp-pantheon-graphic-library-9780307377326","title":"Asterios Polyp (Pantheon Graphic Library)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe triumphant return of one of comics greatest talents  with an engrossing story of one mans search for love  meaning  sanity  and perfect architectural proportions. An epic story long awaited  and well worth the wait.  Meet Asterios Polyp: middle-aged  meagerly successful architect and teacher  aesthete and womanizer  whose life is wholly upended when his New York City apartment goes up in flames. In a tenacious daze  he leaves the city and relocates to a small town in the American heartland. But what is this escape really about?  As the story unfolds  moving between the present and the past  we begin to understand this confounding yet fascinating character  and how hes gotten to where he is. And isnt. And we meet Hana: a sweet  smart  first-generation Japanese American artist with whom he had made a blissful life. But now shes gone. Did Asterios do something to drive her away? What has happened to her? Is she even alive? All the questions will be answered  eventually.  In the meantime  we are enthralled by Mazzucchellis extraordinarily imagined world of brilliantly conceived eccentrics  sharply observed social mores  and deftly depicted asides on everything from design theory to the nature of human perception.  Asterios Polyp is David Mazzucchellis masterpiece: a great American graphic novel.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45666084716597,"sku":"ByrdShop_0307377326","price":33.81,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780307377326.jpg?v=1782418677","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/asterios-polyp-pantheon-graphic-library-9780307377326","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}