My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me: Forty New Fairy Tales - Kate Bernheimer

Descriere My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me: Forty New Fairy Tales - Kate Bernheimer

The fairy tale lives again in this book of 40 new stories by some of the biggest names in contemporary fiction--Michael Cunningham, Francine Prose, Aimee Bender, Kelly Link, Jim Shepard, and more than 30 other extraordinary writers. \nThe fairy tale lives again in this book of forty new stories by some of the biggest names in contemporary fiction. \nNeil Gaiman, Orange \n \nAimee Bender, The Color Master \n \nJoyce Carol Oates, Blue-bearded Lover \n \nMichael Cunningham, The Wild Swans \n \nThese and more than thirty other stories by Francine Prose, Kelly Link, Jim Shepard, Lydia Millet, and many other extraordinary writers make up this thrilling celebration of fairy tales--the ultimate literary costume party. \n \nSpinning houses and talking birds. Whispered secrets and borrowed hope. Here are new stories sewn from old skins, gathered by visionary editor Kate Bernheimer and inspired by everything from Hans Christian Andersen's The Snow Queen and The Little Match Girl to Charles Perrault's Bluebeard and Cinderella to the Brothers Grimm's Hansel and Gretel and Rumpelstiltskin to fairy tales by Goethe and Calvino and from China, Japan, Vietnam, Russia, Norway, and Mexico. \n \nFairy tales are our oldest literary tradition, and yet they chart the imaginative frontiers of the twenty-first century as powerfully as they evoke our earliest encounters with literature. This exhilarating collection restores their place in the literary canon.\n

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PENGUIN BOOKS

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9780143117841

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1

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