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Issue: Vertigo: A Novel in Woodcuts #[nn]
Publication Date: January 2009
 
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Publisher: FlagDover Publications
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Indicia Publisher: Dover Publications, Inc.
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Pages: 320
ISBN: 97804864688910486468895
UPC/EAN: 978048646889151695800759468898
Price: $16.95 USD
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Content Items: 14 (3 stories, 1 cover)
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Black and white
Dimensions: 6 1/8" w x 9 1/4" h
Paper Stock: Bond
Binding: Squarebound
Publishing Format: One-shot
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Lynd Ward (woodcut)
Lynd Ward (woodcut)
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The boy; policeman
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Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword  on  Interior Page(s)
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Vertigo
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David Beronä
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non-fiction
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Vertigo
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[Vertigo] The Girl

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Lynd Ward (credited)
Lynd Ward (woodcut) (credited)
Lynd Ward (woodcut) (credited)
Subject Matter
drama
The girl; father; young man
The girl and the young man are graduated from high school in highest expectations. He hopes for a good job, she for a career as a violinist. As the Depression deepens he leaves town to find work, but she does not hear from him again. When the father loses his job he attempts suicide so that the girl will receive the benefits of his life insurance, but only succeeds in blinding himself. The girl pawns her violin, and they are evicted from their apartment. At the end they wait in line, with many others, for relief.
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The story is told as if year by year from 1929 to 1935.
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[Vertigo] An Elderly Gentleman

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Lynd Ward (credited)
Lynd Ward (woodcut) (credited)
Lynd Ward (woodcut) (credited)
Subject Matter
drama
Elderly gentleman; butler; corporation officers; workers; strikebreakers; soldiers; doctors
An elderly gentlemen pursues refined and artistic pleasures. When his corporation profits decline he orders pay cuts, layoffs, and longer hours. As the workers strike he hires strikebreakers, then gets government officials to send in troops. He collapses and is bedridden, but profits once again are up.
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The corporation in this story is the one from which the father is laid off in the previous story. The story is told as if through the course of a year, from January through December.
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[Vertigo] The Boy

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Lynd Ward (credited)
Lynd Ward (woodcut) (credited)
Lynd Ward (woodcut) (credited)
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drama
The boy; the girl; elderly gentleman; drunk driver; Bugg
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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The story is told as though in the space of a week, Monday through Sunday.
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Lynd Ward (woodcut)
Lynd Ward (woodcut)
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One of the finest wood engravers of the twentieth century, Lynd Ward took his work to a new dimension when he created the 'worldess novel.'
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