Rotters

Zusatztext Starred review! The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books ! May 2011: "A masterly touch at thriller pacing! Kraus gives the current crop of pretentiously serious supernatural YA novels a wild run for their money." Starred review! Booklist: "A tour-de-force combination of reader and writer." School Library Journal : "A gripping and emotional tale." Kirkus Reviews: "A cerebral romp through a fascinating! revolting underworld." VOYA: "Twists and turns will leave readers gasping." "As suspenseful and masterfully told as it is gruesome and terrifying. You'd be hard-pressed to find a coming-of-age story as satisfying as this."--Cory Doctorow! author of Little Brother and coeditor of Boing Boing "Grueling! demented! and so crammed with noxious awesomeness that I had to read it twice."--Scott Westerfeld! author of the Uglies series "This is an unforgettable book. An unforgettable character . . . and an adventure that leads to unforgettable HORROR. I loved it!"--R. L. Stine "A multi-layered! complex novel that pulls no punches. Terrific!"--Rick Yancey! author of The Monstrumologist "Uncompromising! dark! and true."--Guillermo Del Toro! coauthor of the Strain Trilogy and director of Hellboy and Pan's Labyrinth! and Chuck Hogan! coauthor of the Strain Trilogy "A cerebral romp through a fascinating! revolting underworld."--Kirkus Reviews "One of the darkest! wildest! most unsettling adolescent novels I've ever come across. . . . Kraus is absolutely original."-- The Millions "A new horror classic."-- Fangoria   Informationen zum Autor DANIEL KRAUS is a New York Time s bestselling author, an editor, and a filmmaker. His newest novel, Whalefall , the story of a scuba diver who is swallowed by a 60-ton sperm whale and has one hour of air left to escape, has been optioned for film by Imagine Entertainment. Other works include Scowler, The Monster Variations, and The Shape of Water with co-author Guillermo del Toro. . Klappentext Grave-robbing. What kind of monster would do such a thing? It's true that Leonardo da Vinci did it, Shakespeare wrote about it, and the resurrection men of nineteenth-century Scotland practically made it an art. But none of this matters to Joey Crouch, a sixteen-year-old straight-A student living in Chicago with his single mom. For the most part, Joey's life is about playing the trumpet and avoiding the daily humiliations of high school. Everything changes when Joey's mother dies in a tragic accident and he is sent to rural Iowa to live with the father he has never known, a strange, solitary man with unimaginable secrets. At first, Joey's father wants nothing to do with him, but once father and son come to terms with each other, Joey's life takes a turn both macabre and exhilarating. Daniel Kraus's masterful plotting and unforgettable characters make Rotters a moving, terrifying, and unconventional epic about fathers and sons, complex family ties, taboos, and the ever-present specter of mortality. 1. My father's name was Ken Harnett. I was told by my caseworker from the Department of Children and Family Services that she had tracked him down in a small town in Iowa not far from the Mississippi River, not even five hours away from Chicago. My caseworker, a young woman named Claire, was proud of the discovery. When she had told me after my mother's funeral that she was giving top priority to the search, it had sounded like one of those things she was required to say. I think I nodded and maybe even smiled. It never occurred to me that Claire would succeed. I don't think it occurred to her, either. I tried to imagine what he looked like; I subtracted my mother's features from my own. The exercise was not only futile,...

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Daniel Kraus
• Verlag: Random House Childrens Books US
• Sprache: Englisch
• Altersempfehlung: ab 14 Jahren
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 10.04.2012
• EAN: 9780385738583
• ISBN: 978-0-385-73858-3
• Seiten: 464
• Abmessung: 140 mm x 210 mm x 25 mm
• Thema: Kinder- und Jugendbücher