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OverviewChris Wright's Blacklung is unquestionably one of the most impressive graphic novel debuts in recent years, a sweeping, magisterially conceived, visually startling tale of violence, amorality, fortitude, and redemption, one part Melville, one part Peckinpah. Blacklung is a story that lives up to the term graphic novel, that could only exist in sequential pictures — densely textured, highly stylized, delicately and boldly rendered drawings that is, taken together, wholly original. In a night of piratical treachery when an arrogant school teacher is accidentally shanghaied aboard the frigate Hand, his fate becomes inextricably fettered to that of a sardonic gangster. Dependent on one another for survival in their strange and dangerous new home, the two form an unlikely alliance as they alternately elude or confront the thieves and cutthroats that bad luck has made their companions and captors. After an act of terrible violence, the teacher is brought before the ship's captain and instructed to use his literary skills to aid him in writing his memoirs. He is to serve as scribe for a man who, in his remaining years, has made it his mission to commit as many acts of evil as possible in order to ensure that he meet his dead wife in hell. As the captain's protected confidant, finding his only comfort in the few books afforded him, the teacher bears witness to monstrous brutality, relentless cruelty, strange wisdom, and a journey of redemption through loss of faith. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Chris Wright , Chris WrightPublisher: Fantagraphics Imprint: Fantagraphics Dimensions: Width: 22.90cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 30.50cm Weight: 0.862kg ISBN: 9781606995877ISBN 10: 1606995871 Pages: 128 Publication Date: 11 October 2012 Recommended Age: From 16 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsReviews"Chris Wright's Blacklung... feels... like a cancerous tumor that had to be excised from Wright's imagination in order to finally free him of it. ... Wright unleashes the full power of his dense artwork to create a relentlessly grim and oppressive story that is at times a pitch-black satire of both reason and faith. --Rob Clough""" Chris Wright's Blacklung... feels... like a cancerous tumor that had to be excised from Wright's imagination in order to finally free him of it. ... Wright unleashes the full power of his dense artwork to create a relentlessly grim and oppressive story that is at times a pitch-black satire of both reason and faith. --Rob Clough Author InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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