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Vertigo: A Novel in Woodcuts #[nn]
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeThis volume reproduces Lynd Ward's 1937 wordless novel in woodcuts, a stark and powerful visual narrative of a man's descent into madness. Composed of 230 sequential wood engravings, the story follows an everyman character through a surreal, nightmarish urban landscape, exploring themes of alienation and psychological collapse. Dover's edition presents the complete work in its original format, making this landmark of the graphic novel form accessible to a new generation of readers.
A haunting, wordless tale from Lynd Ward, Vertigo: A Novel in Woodcuts presents The Girl—a stark, silent story of longing and desperation. Rendered entirely in Ward’s masterful woodcut illustrations, the narrative follows a boy’s lonely journey through a city that offers little but hardship, his path crossing with a girl only in fleeting, melancholy moments. With evocative art by Lynd Ward, the cover and interior alike capture a world of quiet despair and fragile hope.
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After bidding the girl farewell the boy wanders in search of work until he is sole witness of a fatal car crash. Stealing the victim's good clothes he returns to the city, watching the girl from afar, but the only work he can find is as a strikebreaker, which he refuses to be. Desperately he attempts crime but is scared off by a passing policeman. At length he sells his blood to the bedridden elderly gentleman, who needs a transfusion. With those few dollars in his pocket he makes a glum reunion with the girl, on a downward roller coaster.
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