Black Hole

Locations
Call Number: Adult Graphic Novel / Burns, Charles, Adult Book / Comics & Graphic Novels / Horror / Burns, Charles
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

Location & Checkout Length	Call Number	Checkout Length	Item Status
Downtown 1st Floor 4-week checkout	Adult Graphic Novel / Burns, Charles	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Downtown 1st Floor 4-week checkout	Adult Graphic Novel / Burns, Charles	4-week checkout	Due 05-16-2024
Traverwood Adult Books 4-week checkout	Adult Book / Comics & Graphic Novels / Horror / Burns, Charles	4-week checkout	Due 05-11-2024

COMMUNITY REVIEWS

A dark and powerful story of teenage alienation. submitted by eknapp on November 2, 2012, 11:08am Life at a 70s Seattle high school is marked by a new sexually transmitted disease which causes grotesque, but otherwise benign, deformities. The lucky ones can hide the changes and pass as normal, but most of those who have "the bug" are ostracized, their lives changed forever. Black Hole is told from several points of view, but always that of a teenager and always a victim of the bug. There is virtually no adult perspective at all.

High school alienation is the predominant theme, but change is pretty important too. Wherever the infection goes, a great uprooting follows. There are no after-school-special lessons. No one finds peace or carves out a place in society; every story ends with shattered dreams, running away, living an outcast lifestyle, or worse. Well, there is one couple with hopes and dreams at the end, but even that is accompanied by a powerful sense that it can't last. A hopeless story if ever there was one. Powerful stuff.

Hole submitted by smr on July 3, 2020, 11:23pm Back hole