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The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy: And Other Stories Book

Occupying a similarly sinister and macabre world to the American artist Edward Gorey Tim Burton's work is similarly difficult to place. This is a beautifully produced book filled with fine line drawings--many in colour--illustrating 23 small verse stories which all centre on a surreal deformity--the eponymous Oyster Boy, Stain Boy, The Boy with Nails in his Eyes, Junk Girl, The Pin Cushion Queen...The tales are all quietly disturbing. As with Burton's cinematic work (Edward Scissorhands, Nightmare Before Christmas and Mars Attacks) the book seems aimed at children but the subtexts feel too disquieting. This however is where Burton's genius lies. Children are outcasts in the adult world and their own notion of what is important, grave, frightening and odd is different to ours. We each remember the child inside of us and so are each compelled to recognise the otherness within ourselves: the outcasts that Burton paints are somehow strangely well known to us. As dark and disturbing as the best fairy tales Burton shares a space with the Brothers Grimm--a place that all children know exists when the lights go out and the adults leave the room. --Mark ThwaiteRead More

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    Twenty-three illustrated gothic tales from the dark corridors of the imagination of the creative genius behind Batman, Edward Scissorhands and Big Fish. Burton's lovingly lurid illustrations evoke both the sweetness and tragedy of a cast of gruesomely sympathetic children - hopeful, yet hapless beings.

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    From the pen of Tim Burton creative mind behind "The Nightmare Before Christmas" Edward Scissorhands" and "Sleepy Hollow" comes a dark and melancholy gift book that has already proven itself to be a classic. Featuring wonderfully gothic illustrations by Burton himself and stories of the folorn and twisted children that populate his mind ("The Boy With Nails In His Eyes" "Stick Boy And Match Girl In Love" and "Jimmy The Hideous Penguin Boy" to name but three) The Melancholy Death Of Oyster boy is simultaneously fascinating entertaining heartbreaking and disturbing.

  • Blackwell

    Featuring twenty-three illustrated gothic tales from the dark corridors of imagination, this book includes illustrations that evoke both the sweetness and tragedy of these hopeful, yet hapless beings. Twenty-three illustrated gothic tales from the...

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    The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy

  • 057122444X
  • 9780571224449
  • Tim Burton
  • 18 November 2004
  • Faber and Faber
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 128
  • New edition
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