![]() ![]() "Slyly exquisite.What happens over the course of the next 200+ pages is a dilemma Roald Dahl would have relished: The roiling anarchy of There erupts on Here-specifically, on poor Dave's previously clean-shaven cheeks-in the form of a great, snarly, twisting, unstoppable beard.If Collins is right-if, as he says, stories are necessary-then let's hope this wry young writer/artist has got a lot more lies to tell us." - Glen Weldon, NPR "I don't want to spoil it. ![]() ![]() An off-beat fable worthy of Roald Dahl and Tim Burton, Stephen Collins' The Gigantic Beard That Was Evil is a darkly funny meditation on life, death, and what it means to be different-and a timeless ode to the art of beard maintenance. But on one fateful day, his life is an unstoppable (yet pretty impressive) beard. He loves drawing, his desk job, and the Bangles. Citizens are clean shaven-and Dave is the most fastidious of them all. The job of the skin is to keep it all in. About the Book Originally published: Great Britain: Jonathan Cape, 2013. ![]()
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