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The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy & Other Stories
by Tim Burton
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Hardcover:
115
pages; Dimensions (in inches): 0.66 x 7.80 x
5.31 |
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Publisher:
William Morrow (October 1997) |
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ISBN:
0688156819 |
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book
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From breathtaking stop-action animation to bittersweet modern fairy tales, filmmaker Tim Burton has become known for his unique visual brilliance--witty and macabre at once. Now he gives birth to a cast of gruesomely sympathetic children--misunderstood outcasts who struggle to find love and belonging in their cruel, cruel worlds. His lovingly lurid illustrations evoke both the sweetness and the tragedy of these dark yet simple beings--hopeful, hapless heroes who appeal to the ugly outsider in all of us, and let us laugh at a world we have long left behind (mostly anyway). |
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Sharon
Schulz-Elsing, Curled Up With a Good Book (www.CurledUp.com)
This is the kind of book you keep lying around (it only takes about a quarter of an hour to get through) as a satirical antidote to the cynicism that occasionally gets you in its icy grip--like posting your favorite Far Side cartoons on your fridge, although Oyster Boy and his ilk are on a whole different level of skewed from Larson's chubby bespectacled troublemakers and plotting cows and ultra-domestic snakes. It's smart, weird, brilliant and funny, and perfect for those days when that cloud won't move from over your head. Hope for more of the same from Burton's scrawling pen.
Margo MacDonald, SFsite.com
...it is a charming little book, in the way taxidermy is charming. You will want to read it as soon as you pick it up, so beware--it looks so unassuming on the outside, just a black cloth cover with a title plate, but inside are bugs and nails and fire. You won't know how much those things will make you shudder until you have read this book. Open the cover and enter, if you dare, the dark twisted world of Tim Burton. I've been there and I must confess that there is no one like him for the ability to make you laugh in spite of your cringing. |
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