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Victor LaValle's Destroyer
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From award-winning novelist Victor LaValle (The Changeling) and illustrator Dietrich Smith (Shaft: Imitation of Life) comes an intense, unflinching story exploring the legacies of love, loss, and vengeance placed firmly in the tense atmosphere and current events of the modern-day United States. When the last descendant of the Frankenstein family loses her only son to a police shooting, she turns to science for her own justice… putting her on a crash course with her family's original monster and his quest to eliminate humanity. Collects the complete limited series.
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Victor LaValle
Victor LaValle is the author of more than ten works of fiction and graphic novels, including the multi-award-winning novel, The Changeling. His books have won the World Fantasy Award, British Fantasy Award, Bram Stoker Award, Dragon Award, and the Shirley Jackson Award, among many others. He has been a finalist for the Hugo and Nebula Awards. He has been the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, Whiting Writers Award, and the Key to Southeast Queens. He teaches writing at Columbia University and lives with his wife and kids in the Bronx.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A great read for Fortnight Frights readathon. Destroyer is a homage to Mary Shelley's Frankenstein along with heartbreaking social commentary on police brutality in the USA. An important & impactful read. Definitely 5/5 stars. Highly recommended.
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