Beyond Palomar : a love and rockets book / Gilbert Hernandez.
Poison River trace the pre-Palomar childhood of Luba, her teenage marriage to the gangster Peter Rio, the secrets behind her mysterious mother--all the way to her arrival in Palomar. Love and rockets X depicts 1990's Los Angeles as a cauldron of cultural and racial resentments ready to boil ov...
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| Other title: | Love and rockets. |
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Seattle, WA :
Fantagraphics Books,
2007.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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| Summary: | Poison River trace the pre-Palomar childhood of Luba, her teenage marriage to the gangster Peter Rio, the secrets behind her mysterious mother--all the way to her arrival in Palomar. Love and rockets X depicts 1990's Los Angeles as a cauldron of cultural and racial resentments ready to boil over--seemingly a million miles away from placid Palomar, and yet there are echoes from the distant village, as a certain Palomar expatriate becomes a member of the cast, a skateboarding kid's fugue state lands him in a most unexpected place. |
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| Physical Description: | 253 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Audience: | Suggested for mature readers. |
| ISBN: | 9781560978824 (pbk.) : 1560978821 (pbk.) : |