![]() ![]() ![]() Punctuating the novel are Moser's black-and-white engravings, a welcome addition to Hughes's verbal images, but with few pictures and even fewer conversations, the book makes for slow reading. At the service of a primitively moralizing theme, Hughes puts a sophisticated descriptive apparatus capable of producing subtle atmospheric effects and delicate metaphors. The scenes of transformation are followed by a bewildering chain of supernatural events that is finally resolved in a utopian ending (in a place where industrial waste turns magically into fuel). ![]() He and Iron Woman turn the men who work at the factory into fish so they will learn what it's like to live in poisoned water. Lucy enlists the help of the Iron Man (from The Iron Giant, 1988). She befriends Lucy, whose father works at the factory, and who is therefore anxious to find a less violent way to stop the pollution of the environment. A gigantic Iron Woman rises out of a swamp in order to destroy a factory that is poisoning rivers and killing fish. ![]()
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