Joe Golem and the Drowning City

Name: Joe Golem and the Drowning City
Brand: Macmillan Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Mike Mignola
ISBN: 9781427231826

Author: Mike Mignola, Christopher Golden

Narrator: Robert Fass

Unabridged: 8 hr 12 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Macmillan Audio

Published: 09/11/2012

Categories: Fiction, Fantasy, Paranormal

Synopsis

In 1925, earthquakes and a rising sea level left Lower Manhattan submerged under more than thirty feet of water, so that 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 were underwater. Fifty years have passed since then, 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 an old man, a psychic medium, contacting the spirits of the departed for the grieving loved ones left behind. When a seance goes horribly wrong, Felix Orlov is abducted by strange men wearing gas masks and rubber suits, and Molly soon finds herself on the run. Her flight will lead her into the company of a mysterious man, and his stalwart sidekick, Joe Golem, whose own past 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.

About Mike Mignola

MIKE MIGNOLA is best known as the award-winning creator/writer/artist of Hellboy. He was also visual consultant to director Guillermo del Toro on both Hellboy and Hellboy 2:The Golden Army films. He also co-authored (with Christopher Golden) the novels BALTIMORE, or, The Steadfast Tin Soldier and the Vampire and Joe Golem and the Drowning City. Mignola lives in southern California with his wife, daughter, and cat.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Lisa

I think I have ADD. Whenever I felt like I was getting into the story, my mind would veer off. I spent a lot of time trying to imagine the world the story takes place in, but I just couldn't do it. It's 1975, fifty years after lower Manhattan has been hit by earthquakes and flooding, but apparently......more

Goodreads review by Craig

This is a surprisingly good comics adaptation; I enjoyed it as much as Baltimore. It's a nice Lovecraftian story, heavily influenced by the horror pulps. The story draws on Jewish mythology, obviously, but is more of a Frankenstein's monster redemption story. The setting is fascinating, a noir-ish a......more

Goodreads review by Eric

REVIEWED: Joe Golem and the Drowning City: An Illustrated Novel WRITTEN BY: Christopher Golden and illustrated by Mike Mignola PUBLISHED: March, 2012 Great, fun book. A wild, imaginative adventure in an alternative sinking New York, amongst a cast of strange specters, magic rites, and steampunk. Imagin......more

Goodreads review by Jessica at Book Sake

As this book was listed as an “illustrated novel”, I was expecting more illustrations. The fact that Mike Mignola (Hellboy) was the illustrator is what really drew me to this book. Unfortunately the illustrations were few and far between, the majority of them didn’t take up but 1/8 of the page, and......more