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Book | Searching... Cabell County Public Library | 741.5 KEL | Young Adult | Searching... Unknown |
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Act One of the epic saga of Enrico, a boy living in an alternate 1930s NewYork, where dragon fighting is the city's number one underground sport and thecause of his father's untimely death. Enrico's literal trial by fire beginshere!
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Booklist Review
The son of an Italian immigrant loses his father and seeks work in the employ of a Depression-era gangster doing the same work as his old man (and here comes the hook): hunting dragons. As with his superb I Kill Giants (2009), Kelly creates a fantasy adventure grounded with deep emotional stakes. Fantasy elements are used as a most effective backdrop for the inner life of 10-year-old Enrico, whose masterfully crafted perspective reveals a dawning realization that the world is much darker and more deceptive than he could have imagined, even as his deep longing for a missing father gives him the tenacity to honor the man's beloved memory. Fiumara combines Sam Kieth's tactile figures with Ben Templesmith's stylized collision of bright and dark to create a world of sweat and grime as wholly convincing for the dragon caves as for the realism of 1934 New York City. The one drawback: this book serves as a mere prologue for what promises to be a top-notch epic.--Karp, Jesse Copyright 2010 Booklist