A story about storytelling...Conjures up the grindhouse moviemaking scene in 1970s Los Angeles and tracks an ambitious young mans flailing attempts to build a family and a career as a film arteest in that debased world...A book with a lot of heart. Art Spiegelman, bestselling author of MAUSFourteen years in the making, renowned and beloved graphic novelist Sammy Harkham finally delivers his epic story of artistic ambition, the heartbreak it can bring, and what it means to be humanYOU CAN BURN IN HELL Set primarily in Los Angeles in 1971, Blood of the Virgin is the story of twentysevenyearold Seymour, an Iraqi Jewish immigrant film editor who works for an exploitation film production company. Sammy Harkham brings us into the underbelly of Los Angeles during a crucial evolutionary moment in the industry from the last wheeze of the studio system to the rise of independent filmmaking. Seymour, his wife, and their new baby struggle as he tries to make it in the movie business, writing screenplays on spec and pining for the chance to direct. When his boss buys one of his scripts for a project called Blood of the Virgin and gives Seymour the chance to direct it, what follows is a surreal, tragicomic makingof journey. As Seymours blind ambition propels the movie, his home life grows increasingly fraught. The films production becomes a means to spiral out into time and space, resulting in an epic graphic novel that explores the intersection of twentiethcentury America, parenthood,...

Binding: Hardback;296 pages; Publisher: Random House USA Inc; Classification: FX; Weight: 1468 g; Dimensions: 208 x 263 x 35

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