- Mothers and sons, Single-parent families, Fiction, Loss (Psychology)
A brilliant, graphic novel written by young but promising Patrick Ness. This is the story about 13 year old Conor and his mother who is dying of cancer. Conor has to face the cruelty of real life and learn to let his close and dearest go. When no human can help him Monster appears...
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Contemporary, earnest, grave and spare.
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- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- sparerichly built
- intimateepic
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About the book
- Author
- Patrick Ness, Jim Kay, Siobhan Dowd
- First published
- 2011
- Pages
- 224
- Publisher
- Candlewick Press, Candlewick, Heinemann
- Editions
- 15
- Language
- English, Italian
- ISBN
- 9780763680817
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