Darkly retold fairy tales with modern twists.
If you enjoy classic fairy tales with a contemporary edge, "A Wild Swan and Other Tales" could be an intriguing choice for you. It weaves familiar narratives into something more poignant and current, injecting new life into age-old stories. This collection will speak to your sense of nostalgia while surprising you with its modern sensibility.
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.
ISBN: 9780008140403
Authors:
Michael Cunningham
Publisher: 4th Estate
Date of Publication: 2016-11-17
Format: Paperback
Related Collections:
Fantasy
Goodreads rating: 3.64
(rated by 5211 readers)
Description
Here are the moments that our fairy tales forgot or deliberately concealed, reimagined by one of the most gifted storytellers of his generation, the Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Hours, and exquisitely illustrated by Yuko Shimizu. Rarely have our bedtime stories been this dark, this perverse, or this true. 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. 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.
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Darkly retold fairy tales with modern twists.
If you enjoy classic fairy tales with a contemporary edge, "A Wild Swan and Other Tales" could be an intriguing choice for you. It weaves familiar narratives into something more poignant and current, injecting new life into age-old stories. This collection will speak to your sense of nostalgia while surprising you with its modern sensibility.
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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