![]() ![]() His plays-including NOCTURNE, ANIMALS AND PLANTS, BLACKBIRD, and STONE COLD DEAD SERIOUS-have been produced by the American Repertory Theatre in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the New York Theatre Workshop, and the Bush Theatre in London, among other venues.īorn and raised in Chicago, the novelist and playwright now lives in New York City. In addition to being a novelist, Adam Rapp is also an accomplished and award-winning playwright. "Takes a mesmerizing hold on the reader," adds HORN BOOK MAGAZINE. writes in an earthy but adept language," says KIRKUS REVIEWS. ![]() "Rapp’s prose is powerful, graphic and haunting," says SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL. The author’s raw, stream-of-consciousness writing style has earned him critical acclaim. His subsequent titles include THE BUFFALO TREE, THE COPPER ELEPHANT, and LITTLE CHICAGO, which was chosen as a New York Public Library Book for the Teen Age. "For those readers who are ready to be challenged by a serious work of shockingly realistic fiction," notes SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL, "it invites both an emotional and intellectual response, and begs to be discussed."Īdam Rapp’s first novel, MISSING THE PIANO, was named a Best Book for Young Adults as well as a Best Book for Reluctant Readers by the American Library Association. His narration captures the voices of two damaged souls (a third speaks only through drawings) to tell a story of alienation, deprivation, and ultimately, the saving power of compassion. With the language of the street and lyrical prose, Adam Rapp hurtles the reader into the world of lost children, a world that is not for the faint of heart. Among them: "When we have nowhere to go, who do we turn to? Why are we sometimes drawn to those who are deeply troubled? How far do we have to run before we find new possibilities?"Īt once harrowing and hypnotic, 33 SNOWFISH-which was nominated as a Best Book for Young Adults by the American Library Association-follows three troubled young people on the run in a stolen car with a kidnapped baby in tow. This isn’t the writer’s first foray into sequential art, though Ball Peen Hammer, an apocalyptic tale about a friends who hole up in an apartment to avoid a devastating plague, released in 2009 with artwork from George O’Conner.Adam Rapp says that when he was working on his chilling, compulsively readable young adult novel 33 SNOWFISH, he was haunted by several questions. He also directed the 2005 Zooey Deschanel vehicle Winter Passing. Rapp’s work has largely been in YA novels and plays he netted a Pulitzer nomination for Drama for his Red Light Winter script, a tale about desperate love. ![]() Can they free the rest of the world before the powers that be shut down their utopian experiment? In their secret underground hideout, Angela and her new friends create a life unplugged from the perpetually moving culture. Soon she finds herself recruited into a resistance movement, where the key to rebellion is taking things slow. In a near-future dystopia where life goes a mile a minute and the populace is kept in a hyper-stimulated haze, teenaged Angela is the only person in her family who seems to think this isn’t a perfectly reasonable way to live. From the publisher’s description, the graphic novel-out Valentine’s Day 2017-tackles some of Rapp’s favorite beats- malaise, isolation and an ever-distant hope-molded for a teen audience. Publisher First Second tends to operate in two modes: purveyor of hyper-inventive and often educational kids fare (books by Gene Luen Yang, Maris Wicks) and sophisticated adult genre and nonfiction -the comic equivalent of indie film havens like Magnolia Pictures and A24, whose works tend to fly under the radar until they storm best-of-the-year lists.Īdam Rapp and Mike Cavallaro’s Decelerate Blue appears to straddle both of those categories. ![]()
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