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Cunningham, Michael
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Fiction
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2015
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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English
β 1 MB
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A Wild Swan: And Other Tales
β Scribed by Cunningham, Michael
- Book ID
- 108947514
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 3 MB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780374290252
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
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 awayβthe mythic figures of our childhoods and the source of so much of our wonderβare 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...
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