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*** Best Graphic Novel ***
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A True Story of Crime and Poetry
David Carlson /
Landis Blair (Illustrator)
Hardback: First Second, 2017
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[Written] by David L. Carlson and drawn with graphomaniacal fervor by Landis Blair, [The Hunting Accident] begins with a lengthy feint: It purports at first to be about the relationship between its narrator, Charlie Rizzo, a young Chicagoan in the late 1950s who’s gotten in trouble with the law, and his blind, literature-loving father, Matt. Nearly a hundred pages in, it turns out to be something else entirely: the story of Matt Rizzo’s extraordinary turnaround. An eighth-grade dropout blinded in an armed robbery he helped commit, he was sent to Illinois’s Stateville Prison in 1936, and shared a cell with Nathan Leopold — the upper-class thrill-killer whose murderous partnership with Richard Loeb had been a media sensation a decade earlier. Rizzo wanted only to die, so Leopold made an unlikely deal with him: If Rizzo would learn Braille and read Dante’s “Inferno,” Leopold would help him commit suicide.
- From the NY Times Review by Douglas Wolk
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