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Klappentext In this graphic novel cartooned by a promising up-and-comer, a schoolteacher and a gangster team up when pirates shanghai them. Zusammenfassung Chris Wright’s Blacklung is unquestionably one of the most impressivegraphic novel debuts in recent years! a sweeping! magisterially conceived!visually startling tale of violence! amorality! fortitude! and redemption! onepart Melville! one part Peckinpah. Blacklung is a story that lives up to theterm graphic novel! that could only exist in sequential pictures — denselytextured! highly stylized! delicately and boldly rendered drawings that is!taken together! wholly original. In a night of piratical treachery when anarrogant school teacher is accidentally shanghaied aboard the frigate Hand! hisfate becomes inextricably fettered to that of a sardonic gangster. Dependent onone another for survival in their strange and dangerous new home! the two forman unlikely alliance as they alternately elude or confront the thieves andcutthroats that bad luck has made their companions and captors. After an act ofterrible violence! the teacher is brought before the ship’s captain andinstructed to use his literary skills to aid him in writing his memoirs. He isto serve as scribe for a man who! in his remaining years! has made it hismission to commit as many acts of evil as possible in order to ensure that hemeet his dead wife in hell. As the captain’s protected confidant! findinghis only comfort in the few books afforded him! the teacher bears witness tomonstrous brutality! relentless cruelty! strange wisdom! and a journey ofredemption through loss of faith.
