num_pages: 142
description: “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 Eisner’s own lifelong struggle.
language: English
title: A Life Force
titlecomplete: A Life Force (The Contract With God Trilogy #2)
genres: Sequential Art, Politics, Historical Fiction, Graphic Novels Comics, Historical, Novels, Comics, Fiction, Bande Dessinée, Graphic Novels
ratings_count: 1100
series: The Contract With God Trilogy
publisher: W. W. Norton & Company