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Wild Swan

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Fairy tales reimagined with a dark, modern twist.

If you've ever wondered where fairy tales could go in the hands of a modern literary master, "Wild Swan" is the ticket to a mesmerizing journey. Michael Cunningham peels back the layers of childhood stories to reveal the raw and often darker narratives beneath. Each tale is transformed into something fresh and contemporary, offering new perspectives on the characters and themes you thought you knew. This book is a thought-provoking collection that proves fairy tales aren't just for kids.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.
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Wild Swan

Regular price ₱638.55 ₱589.05 8% off
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ISBN: 9781250097309
Publisher: Picador
Date of Publication: 2016-10-25
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Fantasy
Related Topics: Magical Realism, Retellings
Goodreads rating: 3.65
(rated by 5112 readers)

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Fairy tales for our times from the Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Hours...A poisoned apple and a monkey's paw with the power to change fate; a girl whose extraordinarily long hair causes catastrophe; a man with one human arm and one swan's wing; and a house deep in the forest, constructed of gumdrops and gingerbread, vanilla frosting and boiled sugar. In A Wild Swan and Other Tales, the people and the talismans of lands far, far away―the mythic figures of our childhoods and the source of so much of our wonder―are transformed by Michael Cunningham into stories of sublime revelation. Here are the moments that our fairy tales forgot or deliberately concealed: the years after a spell is broken, the rapturous instant of a miracle unexpectedly realized, or the fate of a prince only half cured of a curse. The Beast stands ahead of you in line at the convenience store, buying smokes and a Slim Jim, his devouring smile aimed at the cashier. A malformed little man with a knack for minor acts of wizardry goes to disastrous lengths to procure a child. A loutish and lazy Jack prefers living in his mother's basement to getting a job, until the day he trades a cow for a handful of magic beans.Reimagined by one of the most gifted storytellers of his generation, and exquisitely illustrated by Yuko Shimizu, rarely have our bedtime stories been this dark, this perverse, or this true.
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Fairy tales reimagined with a dark, modern twist.

If you've ever wondered where fairy tales could go in the hands of a modern literary master, "Wild Swan" is the ticket to a mesmerizing journey. Michael Cunningham peels back the layers of childhood stories to reveal the raw and often darker narratives beneath. Each tale is transformed into something fresh and contemporary, offering new perspectives on the characters and themes you thought you knew. This book is a thought-provoking collection that proves fairy tales aren't just for kids.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.