Kings in Disguise – A Novel - Softcover

Vance, James; Burr, Dan E.; Moore, Alan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0393328481 ISBN 13: 9780393328486

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, 2006

Synopsis

This award-winning tale, set in the height of the Great Depression, received rave reviews long before graphic novels became the phenomenon they are today. Hailed as one of the top 100 comics of all time by The Comics Journal, Kings in Disguise now reemerges as a classic. It is January 1932, and movie-loving Freddie Bloch is trading his father's liquor bottles for the cost a matinee: "Dreams were only a dime, but empty bottles [only] brought a penny apiece." When his father disappears and his brother gets arrested, Freddie finds himself homeless and adrift, trying to survive during the Detroit labor riots and amid the furor of violent, anti-communist mobs. Winner of the Eisner Award and the Harvey Award for Best New Series and an additional Eisner Award for Best Single Issue.

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Review:

Utterly masterful.--Ron Evry

Wonderful, earnest storytelling . . . a book made by intelligent, caring human hands.--Art Spiegelman

The best case yet that a mainstream novel can be told in comics form.--Max Allan Collins, writer of Dick Tracy

Synopsis:

Now re-emerging as a classic, "Kings in Disguise" received rave reviews long before graphic novels became the phenomenon they are today. Set in January 1932, movie-loving Freddie Bloch is selling his father's empties for the cost of a matinee: "Dreams were only a dime, but empty bottles [only] brought a penny apiece." When his father disappears and his brother gets arrested, Freddie finds himself homeless and adrift, trying to survive during the Detroit labour riots and amid the furore of violent, anti-communist mobs. It is a winner of the Eisner Award and the Harvey Award for Best New Series and an additional Eisner Award for Best Single Issue. It contains an introduction by Alan Moore.

About this edition

• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0393328481
• ISBN 13: 9780393328486
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 208