Synopses & Reviews
From American Book Award winner Eric Drooker, this is a story for the ages, beginning with the agrarian past, through the industrial present, and into the technological future.
A young woman bravely escapes a military assault on her island village, journeying across the ocean to arrive, unknowingly, in the Big City. There she meets and falls in love with a saxophone player, who makes heartfelt music. The police find and silence him, confiscating his saxophone and warning him not to make music again as it's strictly forbidden in the Big City. When the street musician continues to make music with his voice the police soon find and imprison him, making the future uncertain for the talented performer and the brave woman who loves him.
Blood Song transcends the boundaries of conventional novels--a wordless tale written in the ancient language of pictures.
Review
PRAISE FOR
FLOOD!: A NOVEL IN PICTURES"A brilliantly colorful, almost Blakean lyricism suffuses Drooker's . . . post-apocolyptic visions of urban bleakness."--The New Yorker
"Drooker's old Poe hallucinations of beauteous deathly reality transcend political hang ups and fix our present American dreams."--Allen Ginsberg
About the Author
Eric Drooker was born in New York City in 1958. His graphics are regularly seen in the pages of numerous publications, among them The New York Times, The Village Voice, The Nation, The Progressive, The Guardian, Heavy Metal ,and World War 3 Illustrated. Drooker is a graduate of the fine arts department of Cooper Union. He is the author of FLOOD! : A Novel in Pictures, which was awarded the American Book Award in 1994 and Street Posters & Ballads. He collaborated with Allen Ginsberg on Illuminated Poems. Blood Song is his second wordless novel. Joe Sacco, winner of the American Book Award, is the recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship and the author of Palestine and Safe Area Gorazde.