A Monster Calls: Winner of the Carnegie Medal 2012, the Kate Greenaway Medal 2012, the Galaxy National Book Award 2011, the Red House Children's Book ... Kinderbuch and category Preis der Jug... - Softcover

Ness, Patrick

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1406336513 ISBN 13: 9781406336511

Verlag: Walker Books, 2012

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Das Monster zeigte sich zum ersten Mal kurz nach Mitternacht, wie es bei Monstern üblich ist. Doch es ist nicht das Monster aus seinen Albträumen, die anfingen, als seine Mutter mit der Behandlung anfing. Es ist etwas anderes, etwas sehr Altes, sehr Wildes.Und es will die gefährlichste Sache von Connor, die man sich vorstellen kann: Die Wahrheit.

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Patrick Ness was born on an army base called Fort Belvoir, near Alexandria, Virginia, in the United States where his father was a drill sergeant in the US Army. Patrick’s family soon moved to Hawaii, where he lived until I was almost six and he later lived in Washington and Los Angeles.
After studying English Literature at the University of Southern California, Patrick got a job as a corporate writer at a cable company in Los Angeles, writing manuals and speeches and once even an advertisement for the Gilroy, California Garlic Festival. His writing career started with the publication of his first story in Genre magazine in 1997. Since then, Patrick moved to London and has had two adult books published and also taught creative writing at Oxford.
On writing, Patrick says, "Here's a helpful hint if you want to be a writer: When I'm working on a first draft, all I write is 1000 words a day, which isn't all that much (I started out with 300, then moved up to 500, now I can do 1000 easy). And if I write my 1000 words, I'm done for the day, even if it only took an hour (it usually takes more, of course, but not always). Novels are anywhere from 60,000 words on up, so it's possible that just sixty days later you might have a whole first draft. The Knife of Never Letting Go is 112,900 words and took about seven months to get a good first draft. Lots of rewrites followed. That's the fun part, where the book really starts to come together just exactly how you see it, the part where you feel like a real writer". Monsters of Men is the winner of the 2011 Carnegie Medal. A Monster Calls was the winner of the 2012 CILIP Carnegie Medal and the Kate Greenaway Medal. A Monster Calls was also long-listed for the 2012 Inky Awards

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Walker Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1406336513
• ISBN 13: 9781406336511
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 236
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