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My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me

Forty New Fairy Tales

By Kate Bernheimer (Editor), Gregory Maguire (Preface)

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| Paperback | 9780143117841

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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 ultiContinue

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 houses 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.

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  • Not Your Grandparents’ Fables

    My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me by Kate Bernheimer Reviewed by Rudi Dornemann Rain Taxi A pedant might object to the subtitle of My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me, since most of the selections in this anthology edited by Fairy ... (read full critics)

    powells published on Mon, 21 Mar 2011

  • Book Review: My Mother She Killed Me; My Father He Ate Me, Edited by Kate Bernheimer Share

    Once upon a time we were all very young. We used to be able to escape into magical worlds occupied by daring princes who would overcome huge odds to rescue beautiful princesses and ugly trolls and witches who would grind our bones to flour for their ... (read full critics)

    blogcritics published on Sat, 16 Oct 2010

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  • English Books
  • Paperback 608 Pages
  • ISBN-10: 014311784X
  • ISBN-13: 9780143117841
  • Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
  • Pub date: Sep 28, 2010
  • Dimensions: 1329 mm x 884 mm x 213 mm Just how big is that?
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