Pretty Monsters: Stories

Link, Kelly; decorations by Shaun Tan

ISBN 10: 0670010901 / ISBN 13: 9780670010905

Published by N.Y.: Viking, 2008

About this Item

Advance reading copy. Illustrated matte wraps show a touch of wear to corners. Autographed by Link in black ink at bottom of title page, as usual when she doesn't have a silver pen handy (see photos). Author's third book, a YA collection of stories, uncommon signed in this state. Viking press release laid in. 393 pages. Seller Inventory # 8073

Bibliographic Details

Title: Pretty Monsters: Stories

Publisher: N.Y.: Viking

Publication Date: 2008

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Very Good

Signed: Signed by Author(s)

Edition: 1st Edition, Special Edition

About this title

Synopsis:

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!

About the Author:

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 (www.lcrw.net).