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Product details:
- Edition number Reprint
- Publisher Pantheon Books
- Date of Publication 8 January 2008
- ISBN 9780375714726
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages368 pages
- Size 233x165x33 mm
- Weight 1044 g
- Language English
- Illustrations b&w drawings throughout 0
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Short description:
A chilling graphic novel set in suburban Seattle during the mid-1970s describes the lives of the area's teenagers, who are suddenly faced with a devastating, disfiguring, and incurable plague that has descended on the young people of Seattle.
MoreLong description:
The best graphic novel of the year (Time) tells the story of a strange plague devastating the lives of teenagers in mid-1970s suburban Seattle, revealing the horrifying nature of high school alienation the savagery, the cruelty, the relentless anxiety, and the ennui.
We learn from the outset 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.
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
Winner of the Eisner, Harvey, and Ignatz Awards
"Smoldering brilliant ... What Burns does so memorably here is blend the erotic and the frightening to create a black hole the reader will want to visit again and again."
The Boston Globe
"The best graphic novel of the year.... One of the most stunning graphic novels yet published."
Time
"Black Hole is Burns's masterwork."
The New York Times Book Review
"Surreal and unnerving ... A remarkable work."
Chicago Sun-Times
