| Black Hole: A Graphic Novel Contributor(s): Burns, Charles (Author) |
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ISBN: 037542380X ISBN-13: 9780375423802 Publisher: Pantheon Books OUR PRICE: $34.00 Product Type: Hardcover Published: October 2005 Annotation: From one of the most fiercely admired graphic artists at work today comes a gothic masterpiece of existential fear and loathing, more than a decade in the making and already being hailed as a classic. Set in suburban Seattle in the mid-1970s, it is a horror tale unlike any other.Pantheon Books |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Comics & Graphic Novels | Horror |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2005046431 |
| Series: Pantheon Graphic Novels |
| Physical Information: 1.5" H x 6.92" W x 9.44" (2.55 lbs) 368 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Suburban Seattle, the mid-1970s. We learn from the out-set that a strange plague has descended upon the area's teenagers, transmitted by sexual contact. The disease is manifested in any number of ways -- from the hideously grotesque to the subtle (and concealable) -- but once you've got it, that's it. There's no turning back. As we inhabit the heads of several key characters -- some kids who have it, some who don't, some who are about to get it -- what unfolds isn't the expected battle to fight the plague, or bring heightened awareness to it, or even to treat it. What we become witness to instead is a fascinating and eerie portrait of the nature of high school alienation itself -- the savagery, the cruelty, the relentless anxiety and ennui, the longing for escape. And then the murders start. As hypnotically beautiful as it is horrifying, Black Hole transcends its genre by deftly exploring a specific American cultural moment in flux and the kids who are caught in it- back when it wasn't exactly cool to be a hippie anymore, but Bowie was still just a little too weird. To say nothing of sprouting horns and molting your skin... |