A
MONSTER CALLS-Patrick Ness
“Stories are the wildest things of all. Stories chase and
bite and hunt.”
Book information
English
title: A
monster calls.
Spanish
title: Un
monstruo viene a verme.
Author: Patrick Ness
Nº Pages: 204/213
Editorial: Nube de tinta /Walker Books
Approx.
price:
14.95€/ 9.99£
ISBN: 978-84-15594-19-2/978-1-4063-3934-5
Set in: United States,Nowadays
Connor opens his eyes.
Darkness to be seen.
Hard ground and sand to be felt.
A monster to be terrified of.
The same feeling, the same fear, the same
nightmare he’s been having long before his mother even started her treatments.
He wakes
up in his bed -00.07 on the digital clock- heavy-breathing and covered in sweat
just to find out something is outside the bedroom window: a monster. But it
isn´t the monster he was expecting to find, it´s not the monster of his
nightmare. The monster standing in the backyard has branches gathered into a
great and terrible face, shimmering into a mouth and nose and even eyes,
watching him. The rest of the body is more and more branches twisted around
others mixed with needle-like leaves and pointy ends. Connor isn´t afraid of
this monster, but he would be as he wants the most dangerous thing from him. He
wants the truth.
Personal
Opinion:
I know this can´t be said to be a review as it
doesn´t give you enough information to figure out what the plot of the book is but
in my defense I have to say that´s better if you don´t know more than that
information. Personally, when I ordered my copy of “A monster calls” the only
thing I knew about it was the information the back cover offered – which is way
less than the one I offer you in this review- and that was enough to convince
me to buy it.
I strongly think the less you know about it,
the more you’ll enjoy it and get surprised about this boy and all the things he
has to deal with. In one single book, Patrick has created an unusual dramatic,
fantasy story which involves loss, hope, a wise voice and monsters-the ones
that live under our beds and the ones that live within us.
Other facts about the book:
-“A monster
calls” will be adapted to the big screen by Focus Features. It´s a
collaboration between Spain and USA as the director is J.A.Bayona and the
screenplay is being written by Patrick Ness. The confirmed actor and actresses
are Lewis MacDougall ,Liam Neeson,
Sigourney Weaver and Felicity Jones. The
release date is expected to be October 14th of 2016.
-The original idea of “A monster calls” by
the writer Siobhan Dowd was turned into a novel by Patrick Ness – who dedicated
her the novel- as she died from cancer at the age of 47. She wrote four books,
two of them were published after her death. In 2009 she became the first author
ever posthumously awarded the Carnegie Medal.
-The
book has lots of different covers and editions but this one´s my favorite:
This edition
of Walker Book (the info is above) (www.walker.co.uk)
has drawings by Jim Kay-who won the Kate
Greenaway Medal for them- that are just so well done and beautiful that I
couldn´t resist to talk about them.(This and the Spanish copies are the ones I
own).
More
editions of the book:
Celia M.G
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