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Pretty Monsters: Stories
by Kelly Link
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Synopses & Reviews
Publisher Comments:
Kelly Link has lit up adult literary publishing — and Viking is honored to publish her first YA story collection. Through the lens of Link's vivid imagination, nothing is what it seems, and everything deserves a second look.
From the multiple award-winning "The Faery Handbag," in which a teenager's grandmother carries an entire village (or is it a man-eating dog?) in her handbag, to the near-future of "The Surfer," whose narrator (a soccer-playing skeptic) waits with a planeload of refugees for the aliens to arrive, Link's stories are funny and full of unexpected insights and skewed perspectives on the world. Her fans range from Michael Chabon to Peter Buck of R.E.M. to Holly Black of The Spiderwick Chronicles fame. Now teens can have their world rocked, too!
Review:
"This compilation of intricate, transfixing selections succeeds in making the weird wonderful and the grotesque absolutely gorgeous." School Library Journal
Review:
"Link defies expectations with such terrific turnarounds that you are left precipitously wondering not only What's going to happen now? but also Wait, what just happened?" Booklist (Starred Review)
Review:
"Weirdly wonderful and a touch macabre....The humor is dry and the characters are easy to relate to, even in alien (literally and figuratively) settings." Kirkus Reviews (Starred Review)
Synopsis:
Through the lens of Link's vivid imagination, nothing is what it seems, and everything deserves a second look. Now, in her first YA story collection, Link delivers stories that are funny and full of unexpected insights and skewed perspectives on the world. Illustrations.
About the Author
Kelly Link (www.kellylink.net) lives in Northampton, Massachusetts, where she and her husband, Gavin J. Grant, run Small Beer Press and publish the zine Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet.
Shaun Tan is the creator of the New York Times bestseller The Arrival. He lives in Australia.
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Product Details
- ISBN:
- 9780670010905
- Subtitle:
- Stories
- Author:
- Publisher:
- Viking Children's Books
- Subject:
- Science Fiction, Fantasy, & Magic
- Subject:
- Action & Adventure - General
- Subject:
- General Juvenile Fiction
- Subject:
- Science fiction
- Subject:
- Fantasy
- Copyright:
- 2008
- Publication Date:
- October 2, 2008
- Binding:
- Hardcover
- Grade Level:
- Young adult
- Language:
- English
- Illustrations:
- Y
- Pages:
- 400
- Dimensions:
- 9.08x6.46x1.42 in. 1.48 lbs.
