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A Wild Swan: Picador. And Other Tales
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(Buch) |
Lieferstatus: |
Auf Bestellung (Lieferzeit unbekannt) |
Veröffentlichung: |
Oktober 2016
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Genre: |
Romane, Erzählungen, Gedichte |
ISBN: |
9781250097309 |
EAN-Code:
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9781250097309 |
Verlag: |
Macmillan USA |
Einband: |
Kartoniert |
Sprache: |
English
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Dimensionen: |
H 184 mm / B 137 mm / D 15 mm |
Gewicht: |
120 gr |
Seiten: |
144 |
Illustration: |
10 full-page black-and-white illustrations throughout |
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Inhalt: |
Fairy tales for our times from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Hours
Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR, Slate, and Bustle
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 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. |
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