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Unterzakhn
Buch von Leela Corman
Sprache: Englisch

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A mesmerizing, heartbreaking graphic novel of immigrant life on New York's Lower East Side at the turn of the twentieth century, as seen through the eyes of twin sisters whose lives take radically and tragically different paths.

For six-year-old Esther and Fanya, the teeming streets of New York's Lower East Side circa 1910 are both a fascinating playground and a place where life's lessons are learned quickly and often cruelly. In drawings that capture both the tumult and the telling details of that street life, Unterzakhn (Yiddish for "Underthings") tells the story of these sisters: as wide-eyed little girls absorbing the sights and sounds of a neighborhood of struggling immigrants; as teenagers taking their own tentative steps into the wider world (Esther working for a woman who runs both a burlesque theater and a whorehouse, Fanya for an obstetrician who also performs illegal abortions); and, finally, as adults battling for their own piece of the "golden land," where the difference between just barely surviving and triumphantly succeeding involves, for each of them, painful decisions that will have unavoidably tragic repercussions.

A mesmerizing, heartbreaking graphic novel of immigrant life on New York's Lower East Side at the turn of the twentieth century, as seen through the eyes of twin sisters whose lives take radically and tragically different paths.

For six-year-old Esther and Fanya, the teeming streets of New York's Lower East Side circa 1910 are both a fascinating playground and a place where life's lessons are learned quickly and often cruelly. In drawings that capture both the tumult and the telling details of that street life, Unterzakhn (Yiddish for "Underthings") tells the story of these sisters: as wide-eyed little girls absorbing the sights and sounds of a neighborhood of struggling immigrants; as teenagers taking their own tentative steps into the wider world (Esther working for a woman who runs both a burlesque theater and a whorehouse, Fanya for an obstetrician who also performs illegal abortions); and, finally, as adults battling for their own piece of the "golden land," where the difference between just barely surviving and triumphantly succeeding involves, for each of them, painful decisions that will have unavoidably tragic repercussions.

Über den Autor
LEELA CORMAN has illustrated books on subjects ranging from urban gardening to the history of the skirt, and her work has also appeared in The New York Times, on WNET/Thirteen, and in The Boston Phoenix, Lilith, Bust, and Tikkun. She studied painting, printmaking, and illustration at Massachusetts College of Art. Leela is also a professional belly dancer. Her radio show, "Ecstacy to Frenzy" airs weekly on GROWRadio. She lives in Florida.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
Produktart: Humor, Comics & Cartoons
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Buch
Seiten: 208
ISBN-13: 9780805242591
ISBN-10: 0805242597
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Corman, Leela
Hersteller: Random House LLC US
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Maße: 239 x 193 x 23 mm
Von/Mit: Leela Corman
Erscheinungsdatum: 04.2012
Gewicht: 0,653 kg
preigu-id: 106851273
Über den Autor
LEELA CORMAN has illustrated books on subjects ranging from urban gardening to the history of the skirt, and her work has also appeared in The New York Times, on WNET/Thirteen, and in The Boston Phoenix, Lilith, Bust, and Tikkun. She studied painting, printmaking, and illustration at Massachusetts College of Art. Leela is also a professional belly dancer. Her radio show, "Ecstacy to Frenzy" airs weekly on GROWRadio. She lives in Florida.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
Produktart: Humor, Comics & Cartoons
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Buch
Seiten: 208
ISBN-13: 9780805242591
ISBN-10: 0805242597
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Corman, Leela
Hersteller: Random House LLC US
Schocken
Maße: 239 x 193 x 23 mm
Von/Mit: Leela Corman
Erscheinungsdatum: 04.2012
Gewicht: 0,653 kg
preigu-id: 106851273
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