The Wild Party: The Lost Classic - Hardcover

Spiegelman, Art; March, Joseph Moncure

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0679424504 ISBN 13: 9780679424505

Publisher: Pantheon Books Inc, 1994

Synopsis

First published in 1928, this rhymed, free-verse novel, which became a cult classic, chronicles a single night of debauchery in the life of a vaudeville dancer and features new black-and-white illustrations. 50,000 first printing. $50,000 ad/promo.

About this title

About the Author:

Joseph Moncure March was a poet, journalist and screenwriter best known for his two verse narratives, The Wild Party and The Set-Up, the story of a washed-up black boxer. An editor for The New Yorker in the 1920s, he died in 1977.

Art Spiegelman is the author of Maus, A Survivor's Tale, for which he received a special Pulitzer Prize in 1992. He was co-founder and editor of Raw, the acclaimed magazine
of avant-garde comics, and is currently a staff artist for The New Yorker and comix editor at Details magazine. He is currently working on Crime Doesn't Pay, 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.
From the Trade Paperback edition.

From the Inside Flap:

When first published in 1928, this story of one night of debauchery in the life of a vaudeville dancer became a "scandalous" success. The Wild Party is now given new life and expression, with March's text accompanied by more than 75 remarkable drawings by Art Spiegelman.

About this edition

• Publisher: Pantheon Books Inc
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0679424504
• ISBN 13: 9780679424505
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 110