Drawing Blood - The Library of the Uncommons

Hardcover, 373 pages

English language

Published 1993 by Delacorte Press, Abyss.

ISBN:: 978-0-385-30895-3
OCLC Number:: 28505886

IT'S A PASSION. IT'S AN ART. IT'S THE ONLY WAY OUT. . .

In the house on Violin Road he found the bodies of his brother, his mother, and the man who killed them both—his father. From the house on Violin Road, in Missing Mile, North Carolina, Trevor McGee ran for his sanity and his soul, after his famous cartoonist father had exploded inexplicably into murder and suicide. Now Trevor is back.

In the company of a New Orleans computer hacker on the run from the law, Trevor has returned to face the ghosts that still live on Violin Road, to find the demons that drove his father to murder his family—and worse, to spare one of his sons... But as Trevor begins to draw his own cartoon strip, he loses himself in a haze of lines and art and thoughts of the past, the haunting begins. …

IT'S A PASSION. IT'S AN ART. IT'S THE ONLY WAY OUT. . .

In the house on Violin Road he found the bodies of his brother, his mother, and the man who killed them both—his father. From the house on Violin Road, in Missing Mile, North Carolina, Trevor McGee ran for his sanity and his soul, after his famous cartoonist father had exploded inexplicably into murder and suicide. Now Trevor is back.

In the company of a New Orleans computer hacker on the run from the law, Trevor has returned to face the ghosts that still live on Violin Road, to find the demons that drove his father to murder his family—and worse, to spare one of his sons... But as Trevor begins to draw his own cartoon strip, he loses himself in a haze of lines and art and thoughts of the past, the haunting begins. Trevor and his lover plunge into a cyber-maze of cartoons, ghosts, and terror that will lead either to understanding—true understanding—or to a blood-raining repetition of the past...

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TomeAlone reviewed Drawing Blood by Poppy Z. Brite

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2 stars

It was decent. I can definitely see why teenage goth chicks of the 90s would devour this like a starving wolf. The story itself isn't terribly engaging, so it's mostly hanging out with ultra 90s twinky dudes who smoke weed a lot. But it has terrifically strong appeal for its target audience, and that's pretty cool.

Subjects

Filicide -- Fiction.
Cartoonists -- Fiction.
North Carolina -- Fiction.