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Joe Golem and the drowning city, an illustrated novel, Mike Mignola & Christopher Golden

eng

illustrations

no index present

fiction

Joe Golem and the drowning city

740627386

Mike Mignola & Christopher Golden

an illustrated novel

In 1925, earthquakes and a rising sea level left lower Manhattan submerged under thirty feet of water. 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, 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 a medium, contacting the spirits of the departed for the grieving loved ones left behind. When a seance goes horribly wrong, Orlov is abducted by strange men wearing gas masks and rubber suits. Molly finds herself on the run. Her flight leads her into the company of Simon Hodge, a Victorian detective who's kept himself alive with magic and steampunk mechanics, and the stalwart sidekick, Joe Golem, whose past and true identity is a mystery to him, but who walks his own dreams as a man of stone and clay, brought to life for the sole purpose of hunting witches"--Provided by publisher