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My Heart is a Chainsaw
Paperback / softback
Main Details
Title |
My Heart is a Chainsaw
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Authors and Contributors |
By (author) Stephen Graham Jones
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Physical Properties |
Format:Paperback / softback | Pages:496 | Dimensions(mm): Height 198,Width 130 |
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Category/Genre | Horror and ghost stories |
ISBN/Barcode |
9781789098099
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Classifications | Dewey:813.6 |
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Publishing Details |
Publisher |
Titan Books Ltd
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Imprint |
Titan Books Ltd
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Publication Date |
7 September 2021 |
Publication Country |
United Kingdom
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Description
Alma Katsu calls My Heart Is a Chainsaw 'a homage to slasher films that also manages to defy and transcend genre.' On the surface is a story of murder in small-town America. But beneath is its beating heart: a biting critique of American colonialism, Indigenous displacement, and gentrification, and a heartbreaking portrait of a broken young girl who uses horror movies to cope with the horror of her own life. Jade Daniels is an angry, half-Indian outcast with an abusive father, an absent mother, and an entire town that wants nothing to do with her. She lives in her own world, a world in which protection comes from an unusual source: horror movies...especially the ones where a masked killer seeks revenge on a world that wronged them. And Jade narrates the quirky history of Proofrock as if it is one of those movies. But when blood actually starts to spill into the waters of Indian Lake, she pulls us into her dizzying, encyclopaedic mind of blood and masked murderers, and predicts exactly how the plot will unfold. My Heart Is a Chainsaw is her story, her homage to horror and revenge and triumph.
Author Biography
Stephen Graham Jones is the author of sixteen and a half novels, six story collections, a couple of standalone novellas, and a couple of one-shot comic books. Stephen's been an NEA recipient, has won the Texas Institute of Letters Award for Fiction, the Independent Publishers Award for Multicultural Fiction, a Bram Stoker Award, four This is Horror Awards, and he's been a finalist for the Shirley Jackson Award and the World Fantasy Award. He's also made Bloody Disgusting's Top Ten Horror Novels, and is the guy who wrote Mongrels. Next up are The Only Good Indians and Night of the Mannequins. Stephen lives in Boulder, Colorado.
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