Jason Furman's Reviews > The Name of the Game

Will Eisner is an extraordinary graphic novelist. This covers a similar style and similar subjects to what I've read from him before--Jews in New York in the recent past drawn in energetic black and white--but it is harder and more brutal. The subject is using marriage to better ones social and economic standing, different types of Jews (German, Eastern European), the ups and downs of various industries (garment and stocks), and--unfortunately--a set of terrible relationships that are loveless and transactional at best or brutal and abusive at worst.