{"product_id":"monsters","title":"Monsters","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBailey'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.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMonsters 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFormat: Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e Published: in UK in 2021\u003cbr\u003e Publisher: Vintage Publishing\u003cbr\u003e Pages: 368\u003cbr\u003e Language: English\u003cbr\u003e ISBN 13: 9781787333413\u003cbr\u003e ISBN 10: 1787333418\u003cbr clear=\"all\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Barry Windsor-Smith","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39625113043047,"sku":"","price":32.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0282\/6066\/3399\/products\/image_cc8a93a3-1764-4154-8478-b77840eea0c6.jpg?v=1644233372","url":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareandsons.com\/products\/monsters","provider":"Shakespeare \u0026 Sons Buchhandel GmbH","version":"1.0","type":"link"}