Boy of Bone: Twelve Stories Inspired by the Mutter Museum

K.R. Sands (Illustrated by Jon Lezinsky)

ISBN 10: 0983582734 / ISBN 13: 9780983582731

Published by Siman Media Works, 2012

About this Item

Limited edition of 500 copies.signed and numbered by the author; Faux treated leather box; Print of the book's cover art, signed by the artist. Encased in publisher's shrinkwrap, in as new condition.

Seller Inventory # 831

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Boy of Bone: Twelve Stories Inspired by the Mutter Museum
• Publisher: Siman Media Works
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0983582734
• ISBN 13: 9780983582731
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: As New
• Dust Jacket Condition: As New
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Horror

About this title

Synopsis

"In this extraordinary narrative and visual collection, twelve stories are crafted out of the imagined lives of actual people. Each story is inspired by an exhibit at the M tter Museum of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, a place of "terrible beauty" (Newsweek) that is "gorgeous and repulsive at once" (The New Yorker). "

Review

"K. R. Sands's Boy of Bone, with illustrations by Jon Lezinsky, is a cabinet of curiosities, its fictional stories inspired by the people whose various body parts have been donated to the Mutter Museum of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia. . . .What could be a cheap, creepy trick transcends into moving (if also creepy) stories." --Elissa Schappell, Vanity Fair
Kathleen Sands has breathed life into the dry bones and the medical curiosities of the Mutter Museum and brought an extraordinary new dimension to the Museum and The College. - Frederick S. Kaplan, M.D., Director, Center for Research in Fibrosdysplasia Ossificans Progressiva & Related Disorders, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania [the world's foremost expert on the "Boy of Bone" disease, fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva].