Written by JOE KUBERT Art and cover by JOE KUBERT From famed comics creator Joe Kubert comes this moving coming-of-age story set within Depression-era New York City. Ruby is a handsome young man growing up in a poor Brooklyn Jewish family. When Ruby falls in with a local mobster called Monk, his initial eagerness to make a few dollars to support his hardworking parents ends up getting him in way over his head in the organized crime world. Now he's caught up in both a war between the Jewish and Italian mobs over unionizing factories and an affair with his dangerous mentor's gorgeous moll.
- ISBN10 1416508864
- ISBN13 9781416508861
- Publish Date 23 November 2005 (first published 1 October 2005)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Simon & Schuster
- Imprint ibooks Inc
- Format Hardcover (US Trade)
- Pages 128
- Language English