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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,... read more

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  • “Pale gray skin, a black crust of blood. I stared at it forever the image burning itself into my brain”
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Setting & Locations edit see section history

Black Hole is set in the suburbs of Seattle during the mid-1970s

First Sentence edit see section history

It was so weird.

Table of Contents edit see section history

Biology 101
PLanet Xeno
Ssssssssss
Racing Towards Something
Who's Chris?
Cut
Bag Action
Cook Out
Seeing Double
Windowpane
Under Open Skies
The Woods
Lizard Queen
I'm Sorry
Summer Vacation
A Dream Girl
Rick the Dick
Driving South

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Authors & Contributors edit see section history

  1. Charles Burns (Author)

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  1. Charles Burns (Illustrator)

First Edition edit see section history

Original Language: English
Publisher: PANTHEON BOOKS
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Publication Date: 2005
ISBN: 037542380X
Page Count: 352

Classification edit see section history

  • Library of Congress: PN6727.B87 B53 2008
  • Dewey: 741.5973

Notes for Parents edit see section history

Reading Level: Adults

Possibility appropriate for older teens, but the entire book revolves around sex and STDs and shows pictures of the male and female anatomy.

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