Black Hole A Graphic Novel

Name: Black Hole A Graphic Novel
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ISBN: 9780375423802

ISBN-10: 037542380X

ISBN-13: 9780375423802

Edition: 2005

Authors: Charles Burns

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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 not 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…

Book details

List price: $40.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 10/18/2005
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 368
Size: 6.87" wide x 9.59" long x 1.56" tall
Weight: 2.662
Language: English

Milt Gross was born in 1895 and died in 1953. Though he achievedfame in his lifetime as much for his scriptwriting and radio shows ashis cartooning, he is now considered one of the early pioneers of thegraphic novel format.Charles Burns is the award-winning creator of the graphic novel, Black Hole, currently in production as a major motion picture directed by David Fincher. He lives in Philadelphia, PA.