A Contract with God and Other Tenement Stories (The Contract With God Trilogy #1)

"Eisner was not only ahead of his times; the present times are still catching up to him."
--John Updike

A revolutionary novel, A Contract with God re-creates the neighbourhood of Will Eisner's youth thr…

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