โ Scribed by Kate Bernheimer
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
"Each of these spare and elegant tales rings like a bell in your head. memorable, original, and not much like anything you've read."--Karen Joy Fowler
"A strange and enchanting book, written in crisp, winning sentences; each story begs to be read aloud and savored."--Aimee Bender
"Horse, Flower, Bird rests uneasily between the intersection of fantasy and reality, dreaming and wakefulness, and the sacred and profane. Like a series of beautiful but troubling dreams, this book will linger long in the memory. Kate Bernheimer is reinventing the fairy tale."--Peter Buck, R.E.M.
In Kate Bernheimer's familiar and spare--yet wondrous--world, an exotic dancer builds her own cage, a wife tends a secret basement menagerie, a fishmonger's daughter befriends a tulip bulb, and sisters explore cycles of love and violence by reenacting scenes from Star Wars.
Enthralling, subtle, and poetic, this collection takes readers back...
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Cover; Half Title Page; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; A Cuckoo Tale; A Tulip's Tale; A Doll's Tale; A Petting Zoo Tale; A Cageling Tale; A Garibaldi Tale; A Star Wars Tale; Whitework; Acknowledgments.;Eight marvelous, melancholy new fairy tales for daring readers.
This title, which won the 2007 Costa award, continues the story of Gussie, a precocious young girl diagnosed with a rare heart condition. Despite this, she is determined to live life to the fullest, experiencing typical adolescent problems such as love and parent troubles. While never complaining, s
Shelby Shane is used to rescuing strays. She has numerous dogs, cats, chickens and horses roaming her farm. On the rural highway in front of her sprawling acreage, she observes another lost soul, a tall man clad in black leather kicking the tires of a very shiny, expensive, and broken-down Harley.