Joe Golem and the drowning city

an illustrated novel

Hardcover, 292 pages

English language

Published April 10, 2012 by St. Martin's Press.

ISBN:
9780312644734

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"An illustrated novel from the acclaimed creator of Hellboy--with over 100 illustrations. In 1925, earthquakes and a rising sea level left Lower Manhattan submerged under more than thirty feet of water, so that its residents began to call it The Drowning City. Those unwilling to abandon their homes created a new life on streets turned to canals and in buildings whose first three stories are underwater.Fifty years have passed since then, and The Drowning City is full of scavengers and water rats, poor people trying to eke out an existence, and those too proud or stubborn to be defeated by circumstance. Among them are fourteen year old Molly McHugh and her friend and employer, Felix Orlov. Once upon a time Orlov the Conjuror was a celebrated stage magician, but now he is an old man, a psychic medium, contacting the spirits of the departed for the grieving loved ones left …

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Subjects

  • Paranormal fiction
  • Private investigators
  • FICTION / Fantasy / Paranormal
  • Teenage girls
  • Fiction