A Wild Swan - And Other Tales

Informationen zum Autor Michael Cunningham is the author of six novels including A Home at the End of the World , Flesh and Blood , The Hours , Specimen Days , and non-fiction book, Land’s End: A Walk Through Provincetown . The Hours was awarded both the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the 1999 PEN/Faulkner Award and made into an internationally acclaimed, Oscar-winning film. His new novel, The Snow Queen , will be published in May of 2014. He lives in New York. Klappentext Here are the moments that our fairy tales forgot or deliberately concealed, reimagined by one of the most gifted storytellers of his generation, the Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Hours, and exquisitely illustrated by Yuko Shimizu. Rarely have our bedtime stories been this dark, this perverse, or this true. 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 disastrous lengths to procure a child. A loutish and lazy Jack prefers living in his mother's basement to getting a job, until the day he trades a cow for a handful of magic beans. 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. Zusammenfassung Here are the moments that our fairy tales forgot or deliberately concealed! reimagined by one of the most gifted storytellers of his generation! the Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Hours! and exquisitely illustrated by Yuko Shimizu. Rarely have our bedtime stories been this dark! this perverse! or this true.

Product details

• Authors: Michael Cunningham, Cunningham Michael, Yuko Shimizu
• Assisted by: Yuko Shimizu (Illustration), Shimizu Yuko (Illustration)
• Publisher: Fourth Estate
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.10.2016
• EAN: 9780008140403
• ISBN: 978-0-00-814040-3
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 222 mm x 13 mm
• Series: Fourth Estate
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Short Stories (single author), Short Stories, FICTION / Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology, FICTION / Magical Realism, FICTION / Fantasy / Epic, FICTION / Fantasy / Dragons & Mythical Creatures, Fairy and Folk tales / Fairy tale retellings, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, short;crime;mystery;The;cosy