Julius Knipl: Real Estate Photographer by Ben Katchor

Julius Knipl: Real Estate Photographer by Ben Katchor

A boy confronts prejudice and intolerance in this striking, emotionally honest coming-of-age story (Publishers Weekly) set on the American homefront during World War I, from the acclaimed author of Search and Destroy and Soldier Boys.

Dirty. Lazy. Good-for-nothing.

Jay Thacker is used to being called names because his dad is half Navajo. But he gets a chance at a new life and a new identity when he and his mom move to the small town of Delta, Utah, to live with Jay's grandfather. In Delta, Jay can convince everyone, and maybe even himself, that his dad--who is missing in action as he fights in WI--is really a POW and military hero, and not gone forever.

As the summer wears on and Jay finds himself growing up a little faster than he expected, he learns to look at some truths that had previously been impossible to face. Truths about his father; about Ken, his new friend from the Japanese internment camp nearby; and about himself, too.

In this understated and moving story, Dean Hughes offers a glimpse at the choices a boy must make as he decides what kind of man he'll one day be.

Ben Katchor is the cartoonist of Hand-Drying in America, The Jew of New York, The Beauty Supply District, and The Cardboard Valise. He has received a Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship and a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship and was a fellow at the American Academy in Berlin and the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library. Katchor has created comics for The Forward, Metropolismagazine, and The New Yorker.

Katchor has collaborated on works of musical theater with the composer Mark Mulcahy and he is the only cartoonist to have won an Obie. His TED Talk is titled Comics of Bygone New York.

Katchor lives in New York, where he is an associate professor at Parsons School of Design.

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ISBN 13	9780316482943
ISBN 10	0316482943
Title	Julius Knipl: Real Estate Photographer
Author	Ben Katchor
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Little, Brown And Company
Year published	1996-09-01
Number of pages	112
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.