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

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

Maguire, Gregory
Bernheimer, Kate
Bernheimer, Kate

Paperback

FantasyGeneral FictionLiterary Fiction

Publisher Price: $21.00

ISBN10: 014311784X
ISBN13: 9780143117841
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: Sep 28 2010
Pages: 576
Weight: 1.05
Height: 1.21 Width: 5.54 Depth: 8.32
Language: English
The fairy tale lives again in this book of forty new stories by some of the biggest names in contemporary fiction, science fiction, fantasy, and magical realism.

Neil Gaiman, Orange

Aimee Bender, The Color Master

Joyce Carol Oates, Blue-bearded Lover

Michael Cunningham, The Wild Swans

These 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.

Spinning 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.

Fairy 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.

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