The Spirit Bares Its Teeth
$18.57
- Paperback
384 pages
- Release Date
6 August 2024
Summary
Mors vincit omnia. Death conquers all.
London, 1883. The Veil between the living and dead has thinned. Violet-eyed mediums commune with spirits under the watchful eye of the Royal Speaker Society, and sixteen-year-old Silas Bell would rather rip out his violet eyes than become an obedient Speaker wife. According to Mother, he’ll be married by the end of the year. It doesn’t matter that he’s needed a decade of tutors to hide his autism; that he practices surgery on slaughtered pigs; th…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781837840724 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1837840725 |
| Author: | Andrew Joseph White |
| Publisher: | Daphne Press |
| Imprint: | Daphne Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 384 |
| Release Date: | 6 August 2024 |
| Weight: | 302g |
| Dimensions: | 34mm x 197mm x 131mm |
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Redefines the concept of a ‘visceral’ book… . parallels to the dangerous pressure to conform (especially for trans or autistic teens) and the importance of being seen and understood are masterfully shown… . readers, take care.-Booklist, Starred Review; White wields prose like a scalpel, cutting deep and spilling guts with gruesome precision… . Visceral and vindicating.-Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review; Via precise, intentional prose, White (Hell Followed with Us) crafts an unsettlingly horrific tale that boasts a rich and fully realized world, propelled by a champion of a protagonist whose determination to fight for his right to survive is both uplifting and empowering.-Publishers Weekly, Starred Review; [A] riveting, spellbinding Victorian horror about a neurodivergent trans boy desperate to escape the life his family has planned for him… . White shows in this sharp, tense novel the same kind of visceral prose that garnered such acclaim for his debut, Hell Followed with Us.-Shelf Awareness, Starred Review; White brings such raw agony, power, and desperation to his complex and layered characters that it is impossible to not feel immediately sympathetic and deeply invested in their survival.-The Bulletin for the Center of Children’s Books, Starred Review
About The Author
Andrew Joseph White
Andrew Joseph White is the trans, autistic, and bestselling author of Hell Followed With Us, The Spirit Bares Its Teeth, and Compound Fracture. Born and raised in the Shenandoah Valley, he received his MFA in Creative Writing from George Mason University, and lives in Virginia with his wife and their antisocial cat.
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