The Wild Things
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- $15.99
Publisher Description
The Wild Things by Dave Eggers is the novelisation of Maurice Sendak's classic
Max likes to make noise, get dirty, ride his bike without a helmet and howl like a wolf. In any other age he would have just been considered a boy. These days he is considered wilful and deranged.
After a row with his mother, Max runs away. He jumps into a boat and sails across the ocean to a strange island where giant and destructive beasts reign - the Wild Things. After almost being eaten, Max gains their trust, and he is made their king. But what will he do with the responsibility?
'A life-affirming delight' GQ
'Compelling, fantastical, engrossing' Shortlist
'Let the wild rumpus start!' Grazia
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Each adaptation from picture book to movie, screenplay, novel, and audio has diluted the mystery and magic of Sendak s classic. Dion Graham s reading of Eggers s interpretation has little to recommend it. The enigmatic plot is made commonplace; the listener follows the young and troubled Max through a series of banal family problems arguments with his mother, her boyfriend, and his sister until he runs away and sails to the land of the Wild Things. Graham s narration is uninspired; he style would be better suited to a spy thriller, and the voices he creates particularly those of the Wild Things are more histrionic than otherworldly.
