And you thought your adolescence was scary. Suburban Seattle, the mid1970s. We learn from the outset that a strange plague has descended upon the areas teenagers, transmitted by sexual contact. The disease is manifested any number of ways from the hideously grotesque to the subtle (and concealable) but once youve got it, thats it. Theres no turning back. As we inhabit the heads of several key characters some kids who have it, some who dont, some who are about to get it what unfolds isnt the expected battle to fight the plague, or bring heightened awareness of it, or even to treat it. What we become witness to instead is a fascinating and eerie portrait of the nature of highschool alienation itself the savagery, the cruelty, the relentless anxiety and ennui, the longing for escape. And then the murders start. As hypnotically beautiful as it is horrifying (and, believe it or not, autobiographical), Black Hole transcends its genre by deftly exploring a specific American cultural moment in flux and the kids who are caught in it back when it wasnt exactly cool to be a hippie any more, but Bowie was still just a little too weird. To say nothing of sprouting horns and moulting your skin . . .

Binding: Hardback;368 pages; Publisher: TBS-Penguin Random House Wholesale; Classification: FM; Weight: 1228 g; Dimensions: 242 x 176 x 30

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