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

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

The fairy tale lives again in this book of forty new stories by some of the biggest names in contemporary fiction.

Neil Gaiman, â€œOrangeâ€
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Aimee Bender, â€œThe Color Masterâ€
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Joyce Carol Oates, â€œBlue-bearded Loverâ€
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Michael Cunningham, â€œThe Wild Swansâ€
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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 talesâ€”the ultimate literary costume party.
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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 Andersenâ€™s â€œThe Snow Queenâ€ and â€œThe Little Match Girlâ€ to Charles Perraultâ€™s â€œBluebeardâ€ and â€œCinderellaâ€ to the Brothers Grimmâ€™s â€œHansel and Gretelâ€ and â€œRumpelstiltskinâ€ to fairy tales by Goethe and Calvino and from China, Japan, Vietnam, Russia, Norway, and Mexico.
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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.
Country USA
Manufacturer Penguin Books
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2010-09-28
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Penguin Books
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2010-09-28
Format	Kindle eBook

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

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