Book Overview
In Scarper Lee's world, parents don't make children--children make parents. Scarper's father is his pride and joy, a wind-powered brass construction with a billowing sail. His mother is a Bakelite hairdryer. In this world it rains knives, and household appliances have souls. There are also no birthdays--only deathdays. Scarper's deathday is just three weeks away, and he clings to the mundane repetition of his life at home and high school for comfort. Rob Davis's dark graphic novel is an odyssey through a bizarre, distorted teenage landscape. When Scarper's father mysteriously disappears, he sets off with Vera Pike (the new girl at school) and Castro Smith (the weirdest kid in town) to find him. Facing home truths and knife storms at every turn, will Scarper even survive until his deathday?
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:190683881X
ISBN13:9781906838812
Release Date:October 2014
Publisher:Selfmadehero
Length:160 Pages
Weight:1.10 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 6.7" x 9.4"
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1 rating
Dadaistic, Darkly Cryptic, and Wildly Inventive
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 7 years ago
"The Motherless Oven" tells the story of three teens in a world vastly different from our own. Where parents are made by children and every appliance is a story-telling god. Definitely a story for those who don't mind not having all the answers and for those who like stories that walk the line between thought-provoking and the absurd.
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