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MONSTERS - BARRY WINDSOR-SMITH GEBUNDEN

35 YEARS IN THE MAKING: THE MOST ANTICIPATED GRAPHIC NOVEL IN RECENT HISTORY *A GUARDIAN 'BOOKS
OF 2021' PICK*The year is 1964. Bailey doesn't realize he is about to fulfil his tragic destiny
when he walks into a US Army recruitment office. Secretive  damaged  innocent  trying to forget
a past and looking for a future  Bobby is the perfect candidate for a secret US government
experiment  an unholy continuation of a genetics program that was discovered in Nazi Germany
nearly 20 years earlier in the waning days of World War II. Bailey's only ally and protector 
Sergeant McFarland  intervenes  which sets off a chain of cascading events that spin out of
everyone's control. As the monsters of the title multiply  becoming real and metaphorical  the
story reaches a crescendo of moral reckoning.A 360-page tour de force of visual storytelling 
Monsters' narrative canvas is copious: part familial drama  part thriller  part metaphysical
journey  it is an intimate portrait of individuals struggling to reclaim their lives and an
epic political odyssey that plays across two generations of American history.Monsters is
rendered in Barry Windsor-Smith's impeccable pen-and-ink technique  the visual storytelling 
with its sensitivity to gesture and composition  the most sophisticated of the artist's career.
There are passages of heartbreaking tenderness  of excruciating pain  of redemption and
sacrifice  and devastating violence. Monsters is surely one of the most intense graphic novels
ever drawn.

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