The Last Airbender Prequel by Dave Roman

The Last Airbender Prequel by Dave Roman

This evocative picture of a lost London and a vanished culture is also the story of a bookish boy discovering his own path. John Gross is the son of a Jewish doctor who practiced in the East End of London from the 1920s to World War I and beyond. His parents were the children of immigrants, steeped in Eastern European customs, yet outside the home he grew up in a very English world of comics and corner shops, sandbags and bomb sites, battered school desks and addictive, dusty cinemas. Mr. Gross looks back on his childhood with humor and insight, tracing this double inheritance. Religion underpins family life: the richness of the Yiddish language, stories, jokes and music-hall humor, the rituals and mysteries of the synagogue, are set against the life of the streets, where boxers and gangsters are heroes and patients turn up on the doorstep at all hours. And in the background, behind the wit and the color, lie the shadows of anti-Semitism and the Holocaust.

Alison Wilgus is a bestselling writer, editor, and cartoonist located in Brooklyn who has been working in the comics industry for almost a decade. She is the author of the SF graphic novel duology Chronin (Tor Books), which has received a slew of positive reviews and has been described as timeless in more ways than one by NPR and wonderful by Book Riot. Science Comics: Flying Machines, her middle school graphic novel, was selected one of the National Science Teachers Association's Top STEM Books for 2018. Her New York Times bestselling work has been published by DC Comics, Dark Horse, Del Rey, and Scholastic, and she worked on Cartoon Network's Codename: Kids Next Door as a script and story writer. In her leisure time, she co-hosts Graphic Novel TK with Gina Gagliano, a podcast about comics publishing.

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ISBN 13	9780345518545
ISBN 10	0345518543
Title	The Last Airbender Prequel
Author	Dave Roman
Series	Avatar: The Last Airbender
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	2010-05-18
Number of pages	144
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.