A Life Force Young Adult Young readers will thoroughly ­enjoy

Young readers will thoroughly ­enjoy this story

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First published in 1980

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A Life Force Young Adult Young readers will thoroughly ­enjoyBy Will Eisner. Published by W. W. Norton. Softcover, 150 pages, B&W, 2006 (originally published 1988) Eisner was not only ahead of his times; the present times are still catching up to him.John Updike Called a masterpiece by R. Crumb, A Life Force chronicles not only the Great Depression but also the rise of Nazism and the spread of socialist politics through the depiction of the protagonist, Jacob Shtarkah, whose existential search reflected Eisners