Research Catalog

Title

Unterzakhn / Leela Corman.

Author

Corman, Leela.

Publication

New York : Schocken Books, 2012.

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Details

Description

203 p. : chiefly ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

"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" -- from publisher's web site.

Subject

• Twin sisters > Comic books, strips, etc
• Immigrants > New York (State) > New York > Comic books, strips, etc
• Jews > New York (State) > New York > Comic books, strips, etc
• Lower East Side (New York, N.Y.) > Comic books, strips, etc

Genre/Form

• Graphic novels.
• Jewish graphic novels.

Call Number

*PSY 12-524

ISBN

• 9780805242591
• 0805242597

LCCN

2011043769

OCLC

745979787

Author

Corman, Leela.

Title

Unterzakhn / Leela Corman.

Imprint

New York : Schocken Books, 2012.

Local Subject

Jews -- Lower East Side (New York, N.Y.) -- Comic books, strips, etc.

Research Call Number

*PSY 12-524