Find this YA sci-fi book!
June 26, 2012 8:44 AM Subscribe
Yet another name this 70s/80s YA novel question--illustrated underground city edition!
Asking for a friend:
Asking for a friend:
A children's/YA novel with some black & white illustrations throughout (they have a creepy, nearly sci-fi Shaun Tan feel, maybe?) set in an underground city, or city under a city (maybe NY?). Cover shows a subway platform and maybe tiled walls -- or tiles make up the font? From 70s/80s? With a plain-spoken title like Under Ground or Under City or...a standalone, not a series. Not The Underland Chronicles, "The City Underground" by Suzanne Martel, "This Time of Darkness" by HM Hoover, or "The Tutti Fruitti Connection" by Alan Cameron.She says the author's last name might sound Russian/Eastern European but it's an American book.
It's much newer but The Invention of Hugo Cabret sounds a bit similar and the author is Brian Selznick. There are lots of B&W underground illustrations and I think there was a cover like that as well. here are some images.
posted by pointystick at 10:04 AM on June 26, 2012
posted by pointystick at 10:04 AM on June 26, 2012
This is somewhat of a longshot as I don't remember that it was illustrated, it's from 1999, and it's not YA per se. But it hits the cover and title so well and it's about a (fictitious) children's fantasy novelist, so...
Dark Cities Underground by Lisa Goldstein
posted by Zed at 11:21 AM on June 26, 2012
Dark Cities Underground by Lisa Goldstein
posted by Zed at 11:21 AM on June 26, 2012
Another long shot as it's recent, butMind the Gap: A Novel of the Hidden Cities otherwise matches some of the points:
posted by DoubleLune at 1:35 PM on June 26, 2012
posted by DoubleLune at 1:35 PM on June 26, 2012
Rather, stick that link at the end and you'll see what I'm trying to say. Serves me right for copy/paste on the phone...
posted by DoubleLune at 1:36 PM on June 26, 2012
posted by DoubleLune at 1:36 PM on June 26, 2012
Total long shot, and admittedly doesn't meet many of your criteria, but The City of Gold and Lead?
posted by triggerfinger at 5:38 PM on June 26, 2012
posted by triggerfinger at 5:38 PM on June 26, 2012
Response by poster: She eventually found it--Downtown by Viido Polikarpus. Thanks for the help, guys!
posted by PhoBWanKenobi at 12:49 PM on July 26, 2012
posted by PhoBWanKenobi at 12:49 PM on July 26, 2012
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Man, those were depressing books. I was down for a week when I read them.
posted by Frowner at 8:49 AM on June 26, 2012 [1 favorite]