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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. A graphic novel about a group from Oregon who visited LA in the aftermath of both Katrina and the BP oil spill. The story is choppy and I couldn't always distinguish the characters. More about what we haven't done than about what happened or what we can do. This book is a good read, pulling you into a better understanding of the horrible Deep Water Horizon spill and its effects on the people, economy and ecology of the Gulf Coast. It's also a great example of how a graphic novel* approach can be so much more powerful that prose. It also shows how including the journalists in the narrative can be more effective than the traditional pretense of an omniscient and invisible reporter. Wheeler's illustrations are excellent. At Steven Duin's and Shannon Wheeler's reading at Powell's Books, Duin mentioned how he'd write up a section, and give it to Wheeler with suggestions on how to turn it into comics panels, and Wheeler would explode with laughter. The final result of the collaboration is splendid. *We need a new term. "Graphic novel" should apply to just novels, but "Graphic memoir" or "Graphic non-fiction" just doesn't sound right.
Although flawed, as perhaps the first graphic novel about the Deepwater disaster, Oil and Water is valuable for high schoolers and adults as a glimpse into the crisis and a vehicle for developing sensitivity to environmental issues.
When ten Oregonians travel to the Gulf Coast in August 2010 to plumb the devastation wrought by the Deepwater Horizon spill, they discover that "Oil and Water" is just the first of the insoluble contradictions. Between the tarred sands of Grand Isle and t No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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