The Cloven. Book one / written by Garth Stein ; drawn by Matthew Southworth.
Material type:
TextPublisher: Seattle, Washington : Fantagraphics Books Inc., [2020]Copyright date: ©2020Description: 1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly color illustrations ; 27 cmContent type: - text
- still image
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781683963103
- 1683963105
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Adult Book
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Main Library | Graphic Novel | STEIN, GARTH | Available | 33111010389100 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
The world of The Cloven: a place where facts are malleable; where genetic 'experiments' live in the margins beneath the freeway. Where secret societies make all the real decisions about the fate of our world, where billionaires filled with hubris insist on tweaking the universe for our own good, where fear and anxiety seep from people's pores so that we d rather believe the scripted television news than something we've actually seen; and yet where searching for one s place in the world - searching for one's home - is still the most powerful yearning of a person's soul.
"The original short story, "The Cloven," by Garth Stein, was commissioned by Hugo House, a writer's center in Seattle, as a part of the Hugo Literary Series. The theme for the evening: "Gods and Monsters"--Title page verso.
"The Cloven Book One stars James Tucker, the most successful genetically modified human organism ever created. Conceived in a privately financed, top-secret laboratory on Washington State's Vashon Island, Tucker is a cross between a human and a goat--a Cloven. Known to his friends as "Tuck", all he wants is to live a normal life as a university student; everything is going fine, until he shows a girl his hoofs...,"--page [4] of cover.