Black hole

Sachbuch

• FS.E : Fremdsprachige Schriften : Einzelne Sprachen : Englische Schriften
• KB.CC : Bildende Kunst : Theorie und Geschichte von Grafik, Zeichnung, Comic und Druckgrafik : Comics für Erwachsene

Verfasser:
Burns, Charles

Verfasser Angabe:
Charles Burns

Sprache:
Englisch

• Englisch
• Comic

Verlag:
A golden book

Erscheinungsort:
New York

Jahr:
2008

Umfang:
368 S. : überw. Ill.

Fußnote:
Text: Englisch

ISBN:
978-0-375-71472-6

Interessenskreise:
Comic

Inhalt:
The setting: suburban Seattle, the mid-1970s. 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 - the savagery, the cruelty, the relentless anxiety and ennui, the longing for escape.
And then the murders start.