| Description |
78 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 67-73). |
| Summary |
"An uncanny and imaginative autobiography of otherness, it offers the fictional record of a writer in the realms of the fantastic shot through with the memories of a pair of Somali-American children growing up in the 1980s. Operating under the sign of two—texts and drawings, brother and sister, black and white, extraordinary and everyday —Monster Portraits multiplies, disintegrates, and blends, inviting the reader to find the danger in the banal, the beautiful in the grotesque. Accumulating into a breathless journey and groundbreaking study, these brief fictions and sketches claim the monster as a fragmentary vastness: not the sum but the derangement of its parts."--Amazon.com. |
| Subject |
Monsters.
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Monsters -- Pictorial works.
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Monsters -- Social aspects.
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FICTION / Fantasy / Contemporary.
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FICTION / Fantasy / Dragons & Mythical Creatures.
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| Added Author |
Samatar, Del, illustrator.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Samatar, Sofia. Monster portraits. Brookline, MA : Rose Metal Press, [2018] 9781941628119 (DLC) 2017055619 |
| ISBN |
9781941628102 (paperback) |
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1941628109 (paperback) |
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