Summary
The inmates of an extensive underground prison struggle to build meaningful lives in a broken system, in the most ambitious graphic novel to date from rising indie star Chris Gooch.
Under-Earth takes place in a subterranean landfill, hollowed out to serve as a massive improvised prison. Sunken into the trash and debris of the past – gameboys, iphones, coffee cups, old cars – we follow two parallel stories.
In the first, a new arrival struggles to adapt to the everyday violence…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781603094771 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1603094776 |
| Author: | Chris Gooch |
| Publisher: | Top Shelf Productions |
| Imprint: | Top Shelf Productions |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 560 |
| Release Date: | 19 January 2021 |
| Weight: | 750g |
| Dimensions: | 147mm x 211mm |
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Critics Review
2021 Best Graphic Novels for Adults - American Library Association
“Gooch builds to a brutal climax before offering a deeply tender, legitimately moving denouement… A perfectly paced page-turning meditation on the possibility of grace from a creator who grows more impressive with every release.” — Library Journal (starred review)
“The hyper-grim focus amplifies the significance of every act of kindness, making those moments surprisingly moving. Told with superb rhythm, this pitch-perfect thriller gets dystopia down right.” — Publishers Weekly
“Elevated by Gooch’s spare, evocative artwork, Under-Earth is an expertly crafted, at times meditative, thriller that will have you on tenterhooks as you follow the protagonists’ attempts to survive a brutal dystopian system with their humanity somehow intact.” — Sonny Liew, author of The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye
Chris Gooch
Chris Gooch (b. 1993) is a cartoonist based out of Melbourne, Australia. His first graphic novel, Bottled, was published in 2017, followed by Deep Breaths, a short story collection, in 2019. He recently won the Lord Mayor’s Creative Writing Prize for “Mooreland Mates,” one of the short stories collected in Deep Breaths, and a Ledger Prize for Bottled.
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