To the Heart of the Storm
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| Rating | : | 4.65 (743 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0393328104 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 208 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-06-16 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
The comic industry’s top awards, the Eisner Awards, are named in his honor. Born in New York City, Will Eisner (1917–2005) created The Spirit as well as fifteen graphic novels and three influential drawing textbooks.
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.
From Publishers Weekly 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. Eisner's story is appealing but marred by schmaltzy confrontations and melodramatic graphics. Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc. Willie's father--an aspiring artist in old Vienna--comes to the U.S. He excels at recreating the family's d
"Five Stars" according to Amazon Customer. Eisner is a classic story teller in the graphic medium.. wiredweird said Complex and personal. Eisner presents broad, varied, and highly personal view of the American Jewish experience. It has to be varied since there is no one experience. Each differs from all the others, and each contains many parts at odds with each other.This time, Eisner starts his story on a troop train, one leg of the trip towards the storm of WWII. One character sits silently, gazing out the window. Alt. Jason R. Tippitt said An amazing, stirring piece of work. Will Eisner tells a thinly veiled autobiographical tale of the anti-Semitic attitudes that lurked in the U.S. even as America headed off to war against the Nazis in Europe. (Though it's never stated in this book, the only *official* aid the U.S. gave German Jews was to let about a thousand immigrate here during the war. Everything else came afterward.)Through the eyes of a son headed