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My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me: Forty New Fairy Tales
My Mother She Killed Me My Father He Ate Me Forty New Fairy Tales Author:Kate Bernheimer (Editor) The fairy tale lives again in these forty new stories by some of the biggest names in contemporary fiction. — Neil Gaiman, Michael Cunningham, Aimee Bender, Kelly Link, Lydia Millet, and more than thirty other extraordinary writers celebrate fairy tales in this thrilling volume -- the ultimate literary costume party. — Spinning ho... more »uses and talking birds. Whispered secrets and borrowed hope. Here are new stories sewn from old skins, gathered from around the world 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.
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.« less
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