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An extraordinary autobiography story from a legend in American comics.
A historical novel touching on prejudice, assimilation, and anti-Semitism, this sweeping saga takes us from New York in the eighteenth century to Vienna before World War I, and finally to America during the depression and World War II."synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
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Born in New York City, Will Eisner (1917–2005) was the author of the legendary comic strip The Spirit, as well as fifteen graphic novels and three influential instructional textbooks. The comic industry’s top awards, the Eisner Awards, are named in his honor.
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Structured around the induction of a young man much like himself into the army in 1942, Eisner's ( A Life Force ) autobiographical graphic novel examines the lives of Jewish immigrants and their children in pre-WW II Europe and America. As young Willie's troop train heads south, his window is transformed into a view of his family's past, full of the suffering and blunt anti-Semitism that characterized the times. Willie relives the death of his mother's father, who had immigrated to America in 1880, and the dispersal of her family among relatives and strangers. Willie's father--an aspiring artist in old Vienna--comes to the U.S. after the outbreak of the first world war to become a small-time businessman. Eisner's story is appealing but marred by schmaltzy confrontations and melodramatic graphics. He excels at recreating the family's daily struggle to survive, yet his characters and situations incline toward stereotype and his depictions of emotions--tearful eyes raised to heaven in joy or archly furrowed brows at the delivery of bad news--border on cliche. A vivid but flawed work from an acknowledged master of the comics medium.
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- PublisherKitchen Sink Press
- Publication date1991
- ISBN 10 0878161325
- ISBN 13 9780878161324
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages208
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Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Limited Edition. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Signed in ink by Will Eisner to bookplate at front free endpaper, and signed and inscribed to previous owner by Eisner in ink to verso of front free endpaper. 10 1/4" X 8". 207pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of pictorial paper over boards. Price sticker to rear cover. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. Numbered 841 of 900 at bookplate. ABOUT THIS BOOK: An extraordinary autobiography story from a legend in American comics. Will Eisner's To the Heart of the Storm is an autobiographical novel that examines hot the anti-Semitism a youth experiences in the America of the 1920s and '30s shapes his personality and life. This graphic novel is also a touching family history, told through flashbacks as the young man rides a troop train to basic training immediately after the entry of the United States into World War II. Poignant yet tough, uncompromising yet humorous, To the Heart of the Storm captures a turbulent era in American history when the country was inexorably marching toward war, carrying along all its ethnic, racial and religious misunderstandings.(Publisher). Seller Inventory # 10448
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