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Lena Finkle's Magic Barrel

Anya Ulinich
Lena Finkle s Magic Barrel Book PDF

Author : Anya Ulinich
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07-29
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9780698170698

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Lena Finkle's Magic Barrel by Anya Ulinich Pdf

*A New York Times Notable Book* “Funny, painful, outrageous . . . Anya Ulinich is the David Sedaris of Russian-American cartoonists.” —Gary Shteyngart Anya Ulinich turns her sharp eye toward the strange, often unmooring world of “grown-up” dating in this darkly comic graphic novel. After her fifteen-year marriage ends, Lena Finkle gets an eye-opening education in love, sex, and loss when she embarks on a string of online dates, all while raising her two teenage daughters. The Vampire of Bensonhurst, the Orphan, Disaster Man, and the Diamond Psychiatrist are just a few of the unforgettable characters she meets along the way. Evoking Louis C. K.’s humor and Amy Winehouse’s longing and anguish, and paying homage to Malamud and Chekhov, Lena Finkle’s Magic Barrel is a funny and moving story, beautifully told.

The Magic Barrel

Bernard Malamud
The Magic Barrel Book PDF

Author : Bernard Malamud
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2003-07-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781466805514

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The Magic Barrel by Bernard Malamud Pdf

Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction Introduction by Jhumpa Lahiri Bernard Malamud's first book of short stories, The Magic Barrel, has been recognized as a classic from the time it was published in 1959. The stories are set in New York and in Italy (where Malamud's alter ego, the struggleing New York Jewish Painter Arthur Fidelman, roams amid the ruins of old Europe in search of his artistic patrimony); they tell of egg candlers and shoemakers, matchmakers, and rabbis, in a voice that blends vigorous urban realism, Yiddish idiom, and a dash of artistic magic. The Magic Barrel is a book about New York and about the immigrant experience, and it is high point in the modern American short story. Few books of any kind have managed to depict struggle and frustration and heartbreak with such delight, or such artistry.

Petropolis

Anya Ulinich
Petropolis Book PDF

Author : Anya Ulinich
Publisher : Viking Adult
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Bildungsromans
ISBN : STANFORD:36105124056610

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Petropolis by Anya Ulinich Pdf

Sasha Goldberg is the ultimate outsider: she's a chubby, biracial Jewish girl from the Siberian town of Asbestos 2. Her father takes off for the United States, and leaves Sasha to navigate adolescence in a bleak apartment bloc with her overbearing mother. Sasha falls in love with an art school drop-out who lives inside a concrete pipe in the town dump. Following her heart gets her into trouble at home, so she flees Russia as a mail-order bride and lands in suburban Arizona. Sasha manages to escape her Red Lobster-loving fianc? and embarks on a misadventure-filled journey across America in search of her father. Anya Ulinich has crafted an unforgettable story of familial fault lines, cross-cultural confusion, and the beguiling allure of new beginnings. Petropolis is a funny and poignant debut marking the arrival of a major new voice in fiction.

Colorful Dreams

Anonim
Colorful Dreams Book PDF

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Vertical Inc
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10-29
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781949980561

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Colorful Dreams by Anonim Pdf

From VOFAN, the star illustrator of the Monogatari series of novels written by NISIOISIN, comes a full-color artbook of his best personal works. Praised by the fans around the world as "The Magician of Light and Shadow from Taiwan", VOFAN is famous for using a vibrant art style combined with unique camera techniques in his art. As the main illustrator for NISIOISIN's novel series for over a decade, VOFAN has illustrated more than 30 book covers and has created dozens of original character designs. Beside his extensive illustration works for NISIOISIN, VOFAN has illustrated magazine covers such as Famitsu and Fancy Frontier Magazine. VOFAN is also the main character designer for the popular Playstation 3 RPG Time and Eternity.

The Making of The Umbrella Academy

Netflix,Gerard Way,Gabriel Ba
The Making of The Umbrella Academy Book PDF

Author : Netflix,Gerard Way,Gabriel Ba
Publisher : Dark Horse Comics
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-14
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781506713571

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The Making of The Umbrella Academy by Netflix,Gerard Way,Gabriel Ba Pdf

Go behind the scenes of The Umbrella Academy, one of Netflix's most watched shows now on Season 3! Dive into the development and production of the first season of the Netflix original series, The Umbrella Academy, with a collection that features hundreds of behind-the-scenes images and exclusive commentary from the creative team. Discover how Netflix's live-action adaption successfully translated Gerard Way and Gabriel Bá's original vision for their comic to the small screen. Whether you're a diehard alumni of the comics or a freshman to the Netflix series, this fantastic tome is one that will not want to miss this vividly designed hardcover volume exposing the idiosyncratic wit and dysfunctional dynamism of Netflix's family of superheroic savants.

Memory Spaces

Victoria Aarons
Memory Spaces Book PDF

Author : Victoria Aarons
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2023-05-09
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9780814349168

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Memory Spaces by Victoria Aarons Pdf

Jewish identity, memory, and place deftly revealed through the lens of Jewish women's graphic narratives.

The Midnight Zoo

Sonya Hartnett
The Midnight Zoo Book PDF

Author : Sonya Hartnett
Publisher : Candlewick Press
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2011-09-13
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780763656324

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The Midnight Zoo by Sonya Hartnett Pdf

Master storyteller Sonya Hartnett crafts a magical and moving fable about war and redemption . . . and what it means to be free. When the Germans attack their Romany encampment during World War II, Andrej and his younger brother, Tomas, flee through a ravaged countryside under cover of darkness, guarding a secret bundle. Their journey leads to a bombed-out town, where the boys discover a hidden wonder: a zoo filled with creatures in need of hope. Like Andrej and Tomas, the animals--wolf and eagle, monkey and bear, lioness and seal, kangaroo and llama-- have stories to share and a mission to reclaim their lives.

The Comics Form

Chris Gavaler
The Comics Form Book PDF

Author : Chris Gavaler
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2022-06-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350245938

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The Comics Form by Chris Gavaler Pdf

Answering foundational questions like "what is a comic" and "how do comics work" in original and imaginative ways, this book adapts established, formalist approaches to explaining the experience of reading comics. Taking stock of a multitude of case studies and examples, The Comics Form demonstrates that any object can be read as a comic so long as it displays a set of relevant formal features. Drawing from the worlds of art criticism and literary studies to put forward innovative new ways of thinking and talking about comics, this book challenges certain terminology and such theorizing terms as 'narrate' which have historically been employed somewhat loosely. In unpacking the way in which sequenced images work, The Comics Form introduces tools of analysis such as discourse and diegesis; details further qualities of visual representation such as resemblance, custom norms, style, simplification, exaggeration, style modes, transparency and specification, perspective and framing, focalization and ocularization; and applies formal art analysis to comics images. This book also examines the conclusions readers draw from the way certain images are presented and what they trigger, and offers clear definitions of the roles and features of text-narrators, image-narrators, and image-text narrators in both non-linguistic images and word-images.

Soviet Daughter

Julia Alekseyeva
Soviet Daughter Book PDF

Author : Julia Alekseyeva
Publisher : Comix Journalism
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 1621069699

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Soviet Daughter by Julia Alekseyeva Pdf

This is the story of Julia Alekseyeva and her great-grandmother Lola. Born in 1910 to a poor, Jewish family outside of Kiev, Lola lived through the Bolshevik revolution, a horrifying civil war, Stalinist purges, and the Holocaust. She taught herself to read, and supported her extended family working as a secretary for the notorious NKVD (which became the KGB) and later as a lieutenant for the Red Army. Interwoven with Lola's history we find Julia's own struggles of coming of age in an immigrant family in Chicago, and her political awakening in the midst of the radical politics of the turn of the millennium.

Fatherland

Nina Bunjevac
Fatherland Book PDF

Author : Nina Bunjevac
Publisher : Random House
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2014-08-28
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781448182435

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Fatherland by Nina Bunjevac Pdf

In 1975 Nina Bunjevac’s mother fled her marriage and her adopted country of Canada and took Nina back to Yugoslavia to live with her parents. Peter, her husband, was a fanatical Serbian nationalist who had been forced to leave his country at the end of World War II and migrate to Canada. But even there he continued his activities, joining a terrorist group that planned to set off bombs at the homes of Tito sympathisers and at Yugoslav missions in Canada and the USA. Then in 1977, while his family were still in Yugoslavia, a telegram arrived to say that a bomb had gone off prematurely and Peter and two of his comrades had been killed. Nina Bunjevac tells her family’s story in superb black-and-white artwork. Fatherland will be recognised as a masterpiece of non-fiction comics, worthy to stand beside Persepolis and Palestine.

Soviet-Born

Karolina Krasuska
Soviet Born Book PDF

Author : Karolina Krasuska
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2024-07-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781978832787

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Soviet-Born by Karolina Krasuska Pdf

In 2010, when The New Yorker published a list of twenty writers under the age of forty who were “key to their generation,” it included five Jewish-identified writers, two of whom—American Gary Shteyngart and Canadian David Bezmozgis—were Soviet-born. This publicity came after nearly a decade of English-language literary output by Soviet-born writers of all genders in North America. Soviet-Born: The Afterlives of Migration in Jewish American Fiction traces the impact of these now numerous authors—among others, David Bezmozgis, Boris Fishman, Keith Gessen, Sana Krasikov, Ellen Litman, Gary Shteyngart, Anya Ulinich, and Lara Vapnyar—on major coordinates of the Jewish American imaginary. Entering an immigrant, Soviet-born standpoint creates an alternative and sometimes complementary pattern of how the Eastern and Central European past and present resonate with American Jewishness. The novels, short stories, and graphic novels considered here often stage strikingly fresh variations on key older themes, including cultural geography, the memory of World War II and the Holocaust, communism, gender and sexuality, genealogy, and finally, migration. Soviet-Born demonstrates how these diasporic writers, with their critical stance toward identity categories, open up the field of what is canonically Jewish American to broader contemporary debates. This book is also freely available online as an open-access digital edition.

"How Come Boys Get to Keep Their Noses?"

Tahneer Oksman
How Come Boys Get to Keep Their Noses Book PDF

Author : Tahneer Oksman
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2016-02-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780231540780

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"How Come Boys Get to Keep Their Noses?" by Tahneer Oksman Pdf

American comics reflect the distinct sensibilities and experiences of the Jewish American men who played an outsized role in creating them, but what about the contributions of Jewish women? Focusing on the visionary work of seven contemporary female Jewish cartoonists, Tahneer Oksman draws a remarkable connection between innovations in modes of graphic storytelling and the unstable, contradictory, and ambiguous figurations of the Jewish self in the postmodern era. Oksman isolates the dynamic Jewishness that connects each frame in the autobiographical comics of Aline Kominsky Crumb, Vanessa Davis, Miss Lasko-Gross, Lauren Weinstein, Sarah Glidden, Miriam Libicki, and Liana Finck. Rooted in a conception of identity based as much on rebellion as identification and belonging, these artists' representations of Jewishness take shape in the spaces between how we see ourselves and how others see us. They experiment with different representations and affiliations without forgetting that identity ties the self to others. Stemming from Kominsky Crumb's iconic 1989 comic "Nose Job," in which her alter ego refuses to assimilate through cosmetic surgery, Oksman's study is an arresting exploration of invention in the face of the pressure to disappear.

Matrilineal Dissent

Annie Atura Bushnell,Lori Harrison-Kahan,Ashley Walters
Matrilineal Dissent Book PDF

Author : Annie Atura Bushnell,Lori Harrison-Kahan,Ashley Walters
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2024-05-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780814349847

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Matrilineal Dissent by Annie Atura Bushnell,Lori Harrison-Kahan,Ashley Walters Pdf

Redefining Jewish American literature through expansive feminist frameworks.

Farewell, Mama Odessa

Emil Draitser
Farewell Mama Odessa Book PDF

Author : Emil Draitser
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2020-01-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780810141094

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Farewell, Mama Odessa by Emil Draitser Pdf

Set in the summer of 1979 at the height of the movement to free Soviet Jewry, Farewell, Mama Odessa is an autobiographical novel whose intertwined storylines follow a variety of people—dissidents, victims of ethnic discrimination, and black marketeers among them—as they bid farewell to their beloved hometown of Odessa, Ukraine, and make their way to the West. At the book’s center is Boris, a young writer thwarted by state censorship and antisemitism. With an Angora kitten for his companion and together with other émigrés, he puts the old country in his rear-view mirror and sets out on a journey that will take him to Bratislava, Vienna, Rome, and New York on his way to Los Angeles. Will Boris be able to rekindle his creative passion and inspiration in the West? Will other Jewish émigrés fit into the new society, so much different than the one they left behind? With humor and compassion, Farewell, Mama Odessa describes the émigrés’ attempts at adjustment to the free world.

Mend!

Kate Sekules
Mend Book PDF

Author : Kate Sekules
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-08
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9780525506669

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Mend! by Kate Sekules Pdf

A hands-on manual and a history and celebration of clothes tending--and its remarkable resurgence as art form, political statement, and path to healing the planet. “For Fans of NBC’s Making It, Bravo’s Project Runway, or shopping vintage: A sweater gets a hole? Sew it closed... Part history and part how-to, Mend! traces the task’s evolution from a 1950s chore to a DIY sustainability movement.” —Marie Claire For thousands of years, mending was a deep craft that has for too long been a secret history. But now it's back, bigger and better than ever. In this book Kate Sekules introduces the art of visible mending as part of an important movement to give fashion back its soul. Part manifesto, part how-to, MEND! calls for bold new ways of keeping clothes and refreshing your style. Crammed with tips, fun facts, ravishing photography, and illustrated tutorials, MEND! tells you exactly how to rescue and renew your wardrobe with flair and aplomb--and save money along the way. Whether you've never owned a needle or are an aspiring professional, MEND! gives you clear instruction and witty advice, with over thirty techniques, from classic darning and patching to cheeky new methods invented by Sekules, to help you turn every garment into a unique fashion statement. Including interviews with menders, shameful fashion industry facts, a ten-step closet mend, cheat sheets, stitch guides, moth elimination, museum conservator and vintage dealer tricks, and more, this is a book to inspire, delight, and galvanize. Sharp, funny, and incredibly timely, MEND! leads the slow fashion revolution into its next phase, where getting dressed is a joyful, creative experience for all.