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FIVE WOUNDS
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| By: |
Dan Hallett, Jonathan Walker |
| Format: |
Hardback |
| List price:
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£19.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1742370136 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781742370132 |
| Publisher: |
ALLEN & UNWIN |
| Pub. date: |
1 May, 2010 |
| Pages: |
184 |
| Description: |
Inspired by Italo Calvino, Jeanette Winterson, Buffy the Vampire Slayer and the Uncanny X-Men, this surreal, darkly beautiful and unsettling graphic novel about five wounded orphans is by turns hilarious and horrific, grotesque and tender. |
| Synopsis: |
On an unnaturally dark night, an unnaturally black dog took a baby from its cradle.Behave, child, or the same might happen to you!In a cruel and arbitrary world, where disturbing lapses in logic are commonplace, five orphans must face their traumatic origins.Gabriella is a crippled angel, haunted by her inability to interpret prophecies. Cur is the rabid leader of a sect of dogs, desperate to escape his inheritance. Cuckoo is a gambler with a wax face determined to find a fixed identity before his luck runs out. Magpie is a thief in search of the perfect photographic subject, but terrified of going blind. Crow is a leper trying to distil the essence of death as an antidote to dying.Each of them is deformed; each has a special ability; each is connected to all of the others. And each gets exactly what they deserve. Or do they? |
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Australia |
| Imprint: |
Allen & Unwin Children's Books |
| Prizes: |
Short-listed for Aurealis Awards 2010 (Australia) |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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