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"[When] Maine's evocative prose takes control, as in the telling of the creation myth recited by the elders on K's island, he creates something uniquely strange and beautiful...If you think you've seen this story before, you're right, but never quite like this." - THE WASHINGTON POST "Like its protagonist, 'a Daliesque construct of unexpected leaps and alarming juxtapositions,' Monster, 1959 is both ungainly and oddly endearing." - THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW" --New York Times Review
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K. lives on an island in the South Pacific. Natives worship him, girls are sacrificed to him, legends surround him. A pleasurable life indeed! Until one day, a new kind of creature is left for him as sacrifice. She doesn't look like all the others - and those who came with her want her back. They want K. too, all forty feet of him, with his claws and fangs and butterfly wings. If K. could speak, or even think, he might be up for the adventure. As it is, all he can do is react...and protest...and resist."Monster, 1959" is a startling, nuanced view of our world that captures David Maine at his unpredictable best. It's a novel that illuminates a distinct time in American pop culture and introduces a creature more like us than we could ever imagine. It's unlike anything you've ever read before: a monster story that raises disturbing questions about who the real monsters are.
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- PublisherSt Martins Press
- Publication date2008
- ISBN 10 0312373015
- ISBN 13 9780312373016
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages256
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Monster, 1959 (Signed First Edition)
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. New York: St Martins Press, 2008. First ed. First printing. Hardbound. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page (name only). A pristine unread copy, in dust jacket. Very fine/very fine in all respects. Difficult signature to get, as the author lives overseas. Reviewed in the NY Times on April 5, 2008. His fourth novel. Signed-Fiction. Signed by Author(s). Seller Inventory # maine
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