Will Eisners A Life Force TP WW Norton Edition

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Chronicling not only the Great Crash of 1929 and the Great Depression but also the rise of Nazism and the spread of left-wing politics throughout the poorest neighborhoods of New York, Will Eisner re-creates himself in A LIFE FORCE as one Jacob Shtarkah, whose existential search for the meaning of life reflected Eisner's personal struggle. In this classic graphic novel Eisner combines the miniaturist sensibility of Henry Roth with the grand social themes of 1930s novelists such as Dos Passos and Steinbeck.