A young woman with a tail like a caterpillar who longs to live for art is only a young man who dreams of living for art. A teenager with a mouth in the chest, teeth, tongue and everything, seeking comfort in your group of friends is just a teenager seeking comfort. A girl with a huge crack in the back and intense love for the first time is more a girl wanting to experience love. Life is as it is. And that is how it is in the Black Hole, hypnotic story as beautiful as aterrorisante Charles Burns - cartoonist, illustrator and director of American cinema, who put their fingers on the covers of Iggy Pop, Time, New Yorker and New York Times Magazine, a name frequently in the pages of the anthology Raw Magazine and quenched and Sub Pop fanzine

And you thought your adolescence was scary ...

Let the flap of the book speak for him:

"Suburb of Seattle, mid 70s. We know from the outset that a strange plague hanging over the area of ​​adolescents, sexually transmitted. The disease manifests itself in many ways - the highly grotesque to the subtle (and omissível) - but once you get, that's it. There's no turning back.

As we inhabit the heads of several key characters - some young people who have, other than some who are about to take - what is revealed is not the expected battle to fight against the plague, to bring greater awareness of her or treat it. What we are witnessing instead is a fascinating portrait of the mysterious nature of school alienation - the savagery, the cruelty, the relentless anxiety and ennui, the longing for escape.

And then the murders begin. "

Black Hole was awarded the Harvey Award, one of the most important awards in the world of HG, and transcends its genre by deftly exploring a specific American cultural moment - that the artist, born in Washington and 55 frequenter of underground lived well - and head youth that drove the flow, a time when that was not exactly cool to be a hippie, but Bowie was still just a little too strange. What does not differ that much of today's times. Whether you were or are nerd, popular, or deleted in school now are older and do not remember this phase was more like, fuck Black Hole is well worth reading. It is shocking, raw and moving, and certainly is something you will not soon forget. If interested, the Culture Bookstore has.