My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me write by Kate Bernheimer. This book was released on 2010-09-28. My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The fairy tale lives again in this book of forty new stories by some of the biggest names in contemporary fiction. Neil Gaiman, “Orange” Aimee Bender, “The Color Master” Joyce Carol Oates, “Blue-bearded Lover” Michael Cunningham, “The Wild Swans” These and more than thirty other stories by Francine Prose, Kelly Link, Jim Shepard, Lydia Millet, and many other extraordinary writers make up this thrilling celebration of fairy tales—the ultimate literary costume party. Spinning houses and talking birds. Whispered secrets and borrowed hope. Here are new stories sewn from old skins, gathered by visionary editor Kate Bernheimer and inspired by everything from Hans Christian Andersen’s “The Snow Queen” and “The Little Match Girl” to Charles Perrault’s “Bluebeard” and “Cinderella” to the Brothers Grimm’s “Hansel and Gretel” and “Rumpelstiltskin” to fairy tales by Goethe and Calvino and from China, Japan, Vietnam, Russia, Norway, and Mexico. Fairy tales are our oldest literary tradition, and yet they chart the imaginative frontiers of the twenty-first century as powerfully as they evoke our earliest encounters with literature. This exhilarating collection restores their place in the literary canon.
Horse, Flower, Bird
Horse, Flower, Bird - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Horse, Flower, Bird write by Kate Bernheimer. This book was released on 2010. Horse, Flower, Bird available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Eight marvelous, melancholy new fairy tales for daring readers.
The Juniper Tree
The Juniper Tree - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Juniper Tree write by Barbara Comyns. This book was released on 2018-01-23. The Juniper Tree available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A feminist reimagining of the Brothers Grimm fairy tale about a single mother and an enchanted friendship—from one of most bewitching British writers of the 20th century. “Comyns’s world is weird and wonderful . . . Tragic , comic and completely bonkers all in one, I’d go as far as to call her something of a neglected genius.” —The Observer Bella Winter has hit a low. Homeless and jobless, she is the mother of a toddler by a man whose name she didn’t quite catch, and her once pretty face is disfigured by the scar she acquired in a car accident. Friendless and without family, she’s recently disentangled herself from a selfish and indifferent boyfriend and a cruel and indifferent mother. But she shares a quality common to Barbara Comyns’s other heroines: a bracingly unsentimental ability to carry on. Before too long, Bella has found not only a job but a vocation; not only a place to live but a home and a makeshift family. As Comyns’s novel progresses, the story echoes and inverts the Brothers Grimm’s macabre tale The Juniper Tree. Will Bella’s hard-won restoration to life and love come at the cost of the happiness of others?
The Complete Tales of Lucy Gold
The Complete Tales of Lucy Gold - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Complete Tales of Lucy Gold write by Kate Bernheimer. This book was released on 2011-03-07. The Complete Tales of Lucy Gold available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. As a child, Lucy dreams of talking fairies and lives contentedly in the wooded suburbs of Boston; she grows up to be a successful animator of fairy-tale films. Or does she? She claims at moments to be a witch in the woods. Like her sisters, who appeared in Bernheimer’s first two novels (The Complete Tales of Ketzia Gold and The Complete Tales of Merry Gold), Lucy has a secret, but she is unable to fasten onto anything but brightness. Novelist Donna Tartt writes, “Lucy’s particular brand of optimism, blind to its own shadow, is very American—she is innocence holding itself apart so fastidiously that it becomes its opposite.” This novel is a perfect end to the Gold family series, and the perfect introduction, for new readers, to Bernheimer’s enchanting body of work.
Lily the Silent
Lily the Silent - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Lily the Silent write by Tod Davies. This book was released on 2012-10-23. Lily the Silent available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The second History of Arcadia novel is the tale of reluctant queen Lily, narrated by her daughter Sophia the Wise.
