Wild Swan
Paperback/Fiction 144 pages English Oct 25, 2016
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Fairy tales for our times from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The HoursNamed a Best Book of the Year by NPR, Slate, and BustleA 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 constructed of gumdrops and gingerbread. 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. 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.
- Author:
- Michael Cunningham
- Publisher:
- Picador
- Publication Date:
- Oct 25, 2016
- Number of pages:
- 144 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Paperback/Fiction
- ISBN-10:
- 1250097304
- ISBN-13:
- 9781250097309