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Title: Fire on the Water
Condition: New
Author: Scott Macgregor
Illustrator: Gary Dumm
Contributor: Gary Dumm (Illustrated by)
Format: Hardback
EAN: 9781419741166
ISBN: 9781419741166
Publisher: Abrams ComicArts
Genre: Manga
Topic: Fiction, Historical Fiction, Graphic Novels
Release Date: 12/05/2020
Description: A novel based on a true tale of heroism and invention in the tunnels beneath Lake Erie in 1916
 
This original graphic novel imagines the lives of blue-collar workers involved in the real-life Lake Erie tunnel disaster of 1916 in Cleveland. Author Scott MacGregor and illustrator Gary Dumm tell the intersecting stories of a brilliant African American inventor, Ben Beltran (based on the real-life Garrett Morgan, Sr.), desperate immigrants tunneling beneath Lake Erie, and corrupt overseers who risk countless lives for profit. As historical fiction, Fire on the Water sheds light not only on one of America’s earliest man-made ecological disasters but also on racism and the economic disparity between classes in the Midwest at the turn of the century.

Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Item Height: 235mm
Item Length: 165mm
Release Year: 2020

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