A Wild Swan - Michael Cunningham
And Other Tales
KORTE INHOUD
Fairy tales for our times from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Hours A 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 deep in the forest, constructed of gumdrops and gingerbread, vanilla frosting and boiled sugar. 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. 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 d...
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2015Uitgever: Farrar, Straus and Giroux144 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 0374290253ISBN-13: 9780374290252Koop dit boek tweedehands
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2015, 134pp, Hele nette hardcover met stofomslag. [Auteur: Cunningham, Michael] [Taal: en] [Uitgever: Farrar, Straus and Giroux] [Jaar: 2015] [Titel: Wild Swan / And Other Tales]
