White Cat, Black Dog - Stories

Informationen zum Autor Kelly Link is the author of Get in Trouble , a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, Magic for Beginners , Stranger Things Happen , and Pretty Monsters . Her short stories have been published in The Best American Short Stories and Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards . She is a MacArthur “Genius Grant” fellow and has received a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. She is the co-founder of Small Beer Press and co-edits the occasional zine Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet . She is also the co-owner of Book Moon, an independent bookstore in Easthampton, Massachusetts. Klappentext NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE • “The Brothers Grimm meet Black Mirror meets Alice in Wonderland . . . . In seven remixed fairy tales, Link delivers wit and dreamlike intrigue.”— Time   FINALIST FOR THE LOCUS AWARD, THE MARK TWAIN AMERICAN VOICE IN LITERATURE AWARD, WORLD FANTASY AWARD, CHAUTAUQUA PRIZE, AND KIRKUS PRIZE • LONGLISTED FOR THE MARK TWAIN AMERICAN VOICE IN LITERATURE AWARD • “Thought-provoking and wonderfully told . . . so seamlessly entwines the real with the surreal that the stories threaten to slip into reality, resonating long after reading.”— BuzzFeed   A new collection from one of today’s finest short story writers, MacArthur “Genius Grant” fellow Kelly Link, bestselling author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist Get in Trouble —featuring illustrations by award-winning artist Shaun Tan A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The New York Public Library, Shondaland , Slate, The Globe and Mail, Electric Lit, Tordotcom, Polygon, Chicago Public Library, Kirkus Reviews Finding seeds of inspiration in the stories of the Brothers Grimm, seventeenth-century French lore, and Scottish ballads, Kelly Link spins classic fairy tales into utterly original stories of seekers—characters on the hunt for love, connection, revenge, or their own sense of purpose. In “The White Cat’s Divorce,” an aging billionaire sends his three sons on a series of absurd goose chases to decide which child will become his heir. In “The Girl Who Did Not Know Fear,” a professor with a delicate health condition becomes stranded for days in an airport hotel after a conference, desperate to get home to her wife and young daughter, and in acute danger of being late for an appointment that cannot be missed. In “Skinder’s Veil,” a young man agrees to take over a remote house-sitting gig for a friend. But what should be a chance to focus on his long-avoided dissertation instead becomes a wildly unexpected journey, as the house seems to be a portal for otherworldly travelers—or perhaps a door into his own mysterious psyche. Twisting and turning in astonishing ways, expertly blending realism and the speculative, witty, empathetic, and never predictable—these stories remind us once again of why Kelly Link is incomparable in the realm of short fiction. Leseprobe The White Cat’s Divorce (The White Cat) All stories about divorce must begin some other place, and so let us begin with a man so very rich, he might reach out and have almost any thing he desired, as well as many things that he did not. He had so many houses even his accountants could not keep track of them all. He had private planes and newspapers and politicians who saw to it that his wishes became laws. He had orchards, islands, baseball teams, and even a team of entomologists whose mandate was to find new species of beetles to be given variations on the rich man’s name. (For if it was true that God loved beetles, was it not true He loved the rich man even more? Was his good fortune not the proof of this?) The rich man had all of this and more than I have space to wri...

Product details

• Authors: Kelly Link, Shaun Tan
• Publisher: Random House USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 24.10.2023
• EAN: 9780593449974
• ISBN: 978-0-593-44997-4
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 203 mm x 17 mm
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature