Blood Roses
By Francesca Lia Block
(HarperTeen, Mass Market Paperback, 9780060763862, 144pp.)
Publication Date: June 2009
Other Editions of This Title: Google eBook, Hardcover, Library Binding
Categories: Short Stories, Social Issues - Adolescence
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What shall we do, all of us? all of us passionate girls who fear crushing the boys we love with our mouths like caverns of teeth, our mushrooming brains, our watermelon hearts?
In these nine tales of transformation, what's real is what's imagined, and the seemingly ordinary gleams with the magic of possibility.
Francesca Lia Block, winner of the prestigious Margaret A. Edwards Award, is the author of many acclaimed and bestselling books, including Weetzie Bat, Dangerous Angels: The Weetzie Bat Books, the collection of stories Blood Roses, the poetry collection How to (Un)Cage a Girl, the novel The Waters & the Wild, the illustrated novella House of Dolls, and the gothic vampire romance Pretty Dead. Her work is published around the world.
“Lush as ever.”
-Publishers Weekly
“Dark, fantastical dreams…will startle, provoke and fascinate.”
-Booklist
“A strangely haunting collection of whimsy.”
-KLIATT
“Individual stories that are riveting and memorable…an overall collection that invites rereading.”
-Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books
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