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Blending fairytale, fantasy, horror, myth and mischief in a delicious cocktail, Kelly Link creates a world like no other, where ghosts of girlfriends past rub up against Scrabble-loving grandmothers with terrifying magic handbags, wizards sit alongside morbid babysitters, and we encounter a people-eating monster who claims to have a sense of humour. With more than a pinch of macabre humour, this is writing to come back from the dead for.
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Science Fiction & Fantasy, American Short stories, Juvenile Fiction, Fiction, Fantasy, Science fiction, Horror stories, Short stories, Children's fiction, Fantasy fiction, Monsters, fiction, Magic, fiction, Adventure and adventurers, fiction, Fiction, short stories (single author), American Young adult fiction, Magic, Tall talesShowing 3 featured editions. View all 11 editions?
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Pretty monsters: stories
2008, Viking, Brand: Viking Juvenile, Viking Books for Young Readers
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0670010901 9780670010905
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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 Spiderwick Chronicles fame. Now teens can have their world rocked, too!
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