· It’s useful that a few of the stories in Pretty Monsters are republished from her earlier collections, Magic for Beginners and Stranger Things Happen, because I can’t talk about Kelly Link without talking about the story “Stone Animals,” which first appeared in the Best American Short Stories , and then in Magic. It’s a story that is summed up in one sentence on the back cover: “A family . Pretty Monsters collects six previously uncollected Kelly Link stories with three reprints ("Magic for Beginners", "The Faery Handbag" and "The Specialist's Hat" - three of her absolute best), chosen for being particularly suitable for a Young Adult audience/5(). · Kelly Link is an American author best known for her short stories, which span a wide variety of genres - most notably magic realism, fantasy and horror. She is a graduate of Columbia University. Her stories have been collected in four books - Stranger Things Happen, Magic for Beginners, Pretty Monsters, and most recently, Get in Trouble/5.
Pretty Monsters, by Kelly Link. I want my life to be a Kelly Link story. I mean it, even though many of the characters in her stories are a little lost, literally or emotionally, and even though others are in danger. Pretty Monsters is intended to be a young adult collection of short stories. This in itself is new—there aren't many YA story. Weird, wicked, spooky and delightful, Pretty Monsters is the companion volume to the surreal collection The Wrong www.doorway.rung fairytale and fantasy with horror, myth and mischief, Kelly Link creates a world like no other. A bloodsucking ghosts. Bringing Stories to Life in San Diego, CA. Write Out Loud was founded on a simple notion: to read stories aloud for live audiences. This is how it began many of its NEA Big Read events—book discussions included—with accomplished actors reading aloud excerpts from the stories in Kelly Link's Pretty www.doorway.ru while there was an emphasis on performative art—the organization was founded.
Though all but one of the ten magical and macabre stories in Kelly Link's collection Pretty Monsters were written for young adults, several of them first appeared in publications for adults, garnering Link a cross-generational fan base. The heroes of the stories are mostly teenagers in familiar settings grappling with angst and alienation, awkwardness and awakening desires. Pretty Monsters (Locus Award winner) The Cinderella Game (added to the paperback edition) Reviews “Readers as yet unfamiliar with Link (Magic for Beginners) will be excited to discover her singular voice in this collection of nine short stories, her first book for young adults.”–Publishers Weekly, starred review. Pretty Monsters collects six previously uncollected Kelly Link stories with three reprints ("Magic for Beginners", "The Faery Handbag" and "The Specialist's Hat" - three of her absolute best), chosen for being particularly suitable for a Young Adult audience.
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