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Title

Studs Terkel's Working : a graphic adaptation / adapted by Harvey Pekar ; edited by Paul Buhle.

Author

Pekar, Harvey

Publication

New York : New Press ; [Jackson, Tenn.] : Distributed by Perseus Distribution, c2009.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Buhle, Paul, 1944-
• Terkel, Studs, 1912-2008.

Description

xxv, 197 p. : ill.; 26 cm.

Summary

A graphic novel adaptation of Studs Terkel's interviews and accounts of the lives of ordinary Americans.

Subject

• Working class > United States > Pictorial works
• Working class > United States > Interviews
• Working class > United States > Attitudes

Genre/Form

• Interviews
• Pictorial works

Note

• Adaptation of: Working : people talk about what they do all day and how they feel about what they do / Studs Terkel. New York : Pantheon Books, 1974.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Preface / Harvey Pekar -- Original introduction to Working / Studs Terkel -- Introduction / Paul Buhle -- Katherine Haynes, farm woman / adaptation and art by Sharon Rudahl -- Joe and Susie Haynes, coal miner and wife / adaptation by Pekar, art by Anne Timmons -- Roberto Acuna, farmworker / adaptation by Pekar, art by Dylan A. T. Miner -- Bill Talcott, organizer / adaptation and art by Peter Kuper -- Roberta Victor, hooker / adaptation and art by Sabrina Jones -- Barbara Terwilliger, idleness / adaptation by Pekar, art by Joan Reilly -- John Fuller, mail carrier / adaptation and art by Sharon Rudahl -- Jack Spiegel, organizer / adaptation by Pekar, art by Peter Gullerud -- Brett Hauser, supermarket box-boy / adaptation by Pekar, art by Ryan Inzana -- Dolores Dante, waitress / adaptation and art by Lance Tooks -- Rip Torn, actor / adaptation by Danny Fingeroth, art by Bob Hall -- Bud Freeman, jazz musician / adaptation and art by Lance Tooks --^
• Steve Hamilton, baseball player / adaptation by Danny Fingeroth, art by Bob Hall -- Eddie Arroyo, jockey / adaptation and art by Sharon Rudahl -- Tom McCoy, proofreader / adaptation by Pekar, art by Terry LaBan -- David Reed Glover, stockbroker / adaptation by Pekar, art by Pablo G. Callejo -- Beryl Simpson, airline reservationist / adaptation by Pekar, art by Emily Nemens -- Sam Mature, barber / adaptation by Pekar, art by Nick Thorkelson -- Edward and Hazel Zimmer, hair stylists / adaptation and art by Sharon Rudahl -- Hots Michaels, bar pianist / adaptation and art by Lance Tooks -- Maggie Holmes, domestic / adaptation and art by Sharon Rudahl -- Nick Salerno, garbageman / adaptation by Pekar, art by Nick Thorkelson -- Bruce Fletcher, greenhouse worker / adaptation and art by Sharon Rudahl -- Nick Lindsay, carpenter & poet / adaptation by Pekar, art by Pat Moriarity -- Mario and Bob Anichini, stone cutters / adaptation and art by Sharon Rudahl --^
• Ruth Lindstrom, baby nurse / adaptation and art by Sharon Rudahl -- Gary Bryner, Lordstown local UAW president / adaptation and art by Gary Dumm -- Elmer Ruiz, gravedigger / adaptation by Pekar, art by Ryan Inzana.

ISBN

• 9781595583215
• 1595583211

LCCN

^^2008047894

OCLC

• 276930322
• SCSB-12563637

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library