My Name Is Monster

Häftad, Engelska, 2021

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Beskrivning

'Strikingly beautiful' Guardian'Tough and tender' Joanne HarrisAfter the Sickness has killed off her parents, and the bombs have fallen on the last safe cities, Monster emerges from the Arctic vault which has kept her alive. When she washes up on the coast of Scotland, everyone she knows is dead, and she believes she is alone in an empty world.Slowly, piece by piece, she begins to rebuild a life. Until, one day, she finds a girl: another survivor, feral, and ready to be taught all that Monster knows. But as the lonely days pass, the lessons the girl learns are not always the ones Monster means to teach . . .

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2021-01-07
Mått:129 x 198 x 19 mm
Vikt:215 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:320
Förlag:Canongate Books
ISBN:9781786896360
Utmärkelser:Short-listed for The Kitschies Golden Tentacle 2020 (UK)

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Based in Cumbria, Katie Hale won a Northern Debut Award for her poetry collection, White Ghosts (Nine Arches, 2023). Katie is a former MacDowell Fellow and winner of the Palette Poetry Prize, Munster Chapbook Prize and Aesthetica Creative Writing Prize. Her short fiction has been longlisted for the BBC National Short Story Award. Her debut novel, My Name Is Monster, was published in 2019. She won a Northern Writers' Award for Fiction in 2022 to work on The Edge of Solitude.@halekatie | @katiescribbles | halekatie.com

Recensioner i media

Fresh and powerful . . . Hale's writing is assured and . . . strikingly beautiful . . . Most of all, the book has a great generosity and empathy for monsterdom, and refreshingly allows its characters to find happiness without becoming more ordinary . . . Hale is certainly a skilful writer with a compelling voice, and her ideas are bold and promising