Pretty Monsters by Kelly Link
Weird, wicked, spooky and delicious, Pretty Monsters is a book of tall tales to keep you up all night. 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. Combining the imaginative brilliance of Borges with the madcap escapades of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and more than a pinch of macabre humour, this is writing to come back from the dead for.
All of Link's stories are wonderfully odd and original. . Very scary indeed. -- SARAH WATERS
Kelly Link is the literary descendant of Jorge Luis Borges and Franz Kafka. * * AUDREY NIFFENEGGER * *
Funny, moving, tender, brave and dangerous. She is unique, and should be declared a national treasure, and possibly surrounded at all times by a cordon of armed marines. * * NEIL GAIMAN * *
Link's stories play in a place few writers go, a netherworld between literature and fantasy, Alice Munro and JK Rowling, and Link find truths there that most authors wouldn't dare touch. * * Time * *
A new short story collection by Kelly Link ... and once more, for a little while, the world is worth saving. * * MICHAEL CHABON * *
Intoxicating. These stories will come alive, put on zoot suits, and wrestle you to the ground. They want you and you will be theirs. * * ALICE SEBOLD * *
Link's writing about relationships, whether between parents and children, friends, or young lovers, is sublime. The highlight is the Nebula award-winning "Magic for Beginners", about a group of friends hooked on a bizarre TV shoe set in a vast library. Like many others in the collection, it's coming-of-age story written with a tender insight into the unstable emotional geography of the teenage mind. -- Eric Brown * * Guardian * *
Wizards, ghosts, meat-eating sofas and Nosferatu babysitters weave in and out of recognisable everyday life. Link's tone is cleverly poised between genuine creepiness and off-the-wall humour. Eccentric and unforgettable. -- Kate Saunders * * The Times * *
Links Narrative come complete with ghost and fairies - her stories have been labeled as part of the 'New Weird' movement, but are no less human for that. -- Erica Wagner * * The Times * *
Dark, sexy and hilarious. * * New Statesman * *
Very odd, and very funny. * * Scotland on Sunday * *
Kelly Link is the literary descendant of Jorge Luis Borges and Franz Kafka. * * AUDREY NIFFENEGGER * *
Funny, moving, tender, brave and dangerous. She is unique, and should be declared a national treasure, and possibly surrounded at all times by a cordon of armed marines. * * NEIL GAIMAN * *
Link's stories play in a place few writers go, a netherworld between literature and fantasy, Alice Munro and JK Rowling, and Link find truths there that most authors wouldn't dare touch. * * Time * *
A new short story collection by Kelly Link ... and once more, for a little while, the world is worth saving. * * MICHAEL CHABON * *
Intoxicating. These stories will come alive, put on zoot suits, and wrestle you to the ground. They want you and you will be theirs. * * ALICE SEBOLD * *
Link's writing about relationships, whether between parents and children, friends, or young lovers, is sublime. The highlight is the Nebula award-winning "Magic for Beginners", about a group of friends hooked on a bizarre TV shoe set in a vast library. Like many others in the collection, it's coming-of-age story written with a tender insight into the unstable emotional geography of the teenage mind. -- Eric Brown * * Guardian * *
Wizards, ghosts, meat-eating sofas and Nosferatu babysitters weave in and out of recognisable everyday life. Link's tone is cleverly poised between genuine creepiness and off-the-wall humour. Eccentric and unforgettable. -- Kate Saunders * * The Times * *
Links Narrative come complete with ghost and fairies - her stories have been labeled as part of the 'New Weird' movement, but are no less human for that. -- Erica Wagner * * The Times * *
Dark, sexy and hilarious. * * New Statesman * *
Very odd, and very funny. * * Scotland on Sunday * *
Kelly Link 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. She once won a free trip around the world by answering the question, 'Why do you want to go around the world?' ('Because you can't go through it.')
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781847677839 |
| ISBN 10 | 1847677835 |
| Title | Pretty Monsters |
| Author | Kelly Link |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Canongate Books |
| Year published | 2009-10-15 |
| Prizes | Winner of Locus Award for Best Anthology 2009 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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