Black hole by charles burns7/4/2023 ![]() The characters’ clothes, along with references to musical icons of the time (David Bowie, Jim Morrison, and Jimi Hendrix) scattered through the novel, or to the use of drugs as a way to escape reality, are among the narrative elements that evoke the juvenile countercultures of the 1970s. Black Hole is set in the 1970s, “after the fall of ‘60s idealism” (Appleford), as Burns himself states. ![]() Those who are unable to hide the marks of the disease are condemned to live in the woods, leading a misrecognized existence outside human and social visibility. As summarized in a review published in The Washington Post, Black Hole, set in the suburbs of Seattle, “covers the high school years of a group of kids who find themselves catching a venereal disease known as ‘the teen plague.’ After sex with an infected partner, they deform and mutate” (Schwarz). 1 Charles Burns’s Black Hole was published in twelve issues between 19, and as a volume in 2005. ![]()
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