Black Hole
by Charles Burns
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Recommended by 2 sources and appears in Most Recommended Books.
Suburban Seattle, the mid1970s. 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 o...
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Recommended by 2 sources and appears in Most Recommended Books.
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