{"product_id":"9780375423802","title":"Black Hole","description":"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, that’s it. There’s not turning back.\u003cp\u003e    As we inhabit the heads of several key characters — some kids who have it, some who don’t, some who are about to get it — what unfolds isn’t the expected battle to fight the plague, or bring heightened awareness to it , or even to treat it. What we become witness to instead is a fascinating and eerie portrait of the nature of high school alienation itself — the savagery, the cruelty, the relentless anxiety and ennui, the longing for escape.  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  And then the murders start.  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  As hypnotically beautiful as it is horrifying, 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 wasn’t exactly cool to be a hippie anymore, but Bowie was still just a little too weird.   \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  To say nothing of sprouting horns and molting your skin…  \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47045560828144,"sku":"9780375423802","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780375423802_p0.jpg?v=1763767997","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780375423802","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}