The shape of water
This is the novel of the idea that inspired the motion picture. An other-worldly fairy tale set against the backdrop of the Cold War-era United States circa 1962. In the hidden high-security government laboratory where she works, lonely Elisa is trapped in a life of silence and isolation. Elisa's li...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Feiwel and Friends,
2018.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Online Access: | Go to Downloadable eBook Here. |
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| 100 | 1 | |a Toro, Guillermo del, |d 1964- |e author. | |
| 245 | 1 | 4 | |a The shape of water / |c Guillermo del Toro and Daniel Kraus ; illustrations by James Jean. |
| 250 | |a First edition. | ||
| 264 | 1 | |a New York : |b Feiwel and Friends, |c 2018. | |
| 300 | |a 315 pages : |b illustrations ; |c 24 cm | ||
| 336 | |a text |b txt |2 rdacontent | ||
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| 590 | |a Genre sticker: Fantasy. | ||
| 520 | |a This is the novel of the idea that inspired the motion picture. An other-worldly fairy tale set against the backdrop of the Cold War-era United States circa 1962. In the hidden high-security government laboratory where she works, lonely Elisa is trapped in a life of silence and isolation. Elisa's life is changed forever when she and co-worker Zelda discover a secret classified experiment. | ||
| 520 | |a 1962. Elisa Esposito-- mute her whole life-- works as a janitor working the graveyard shift at Baltimore's Occam Aerospace Research Center. Only Zelda, a protective coworker, and Giles, her loving neighbor, help her make it through her day. Then she sees something she was never meant to see: an amphibious man, captured in the Amazon, to be studied for Cold War advancements. Using sign language, the two learn to communicate. Richard Strickland, the obsessed soldier who tracked the asset through the Amazon, wants nothing more than to dissect it before the Russians get a chance to steal it. | ||
| 650 | 0 | |a Orphans |v Fiction. | |
| 655 | 7 | |a Romance fiction. |2 lcgft | |
| 655 | 7 | |a Magic realist fiction. |2 lcgft | |
| 655 | 7 | |a Fantasy fiction. |2 lcgft | |
| 655 | 7 | |a Love stories. |2 gsafd | |
| 655 | 7 | |a Historical fiction. |2 lcgft | |
| 700 | 1 | |a Kraus, Daniel, |d 1975- |e author. | |
| 700 | 1 | |a Jean, James, |d 1979- |e illustrator. | |
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