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Sto caricando le informazioni... A wild swan : and other tales (edizione 2015)di Michael Cunningham, Yuko Shimizu (Illustrator.)
Informazioni sull'operaA Wild Swan and Other Tales di Michael Cunningham
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. “Most of us are safe. If you’re not a delirious dream the gods are having, if your beauty doesn’t trouble the constellations, nobody’s going to cast a spell on you. No one wants to transform you into a beast, or put you to sleep for 100 years. The wraith disguised as a pixie isn’t thinking of offering you three wishes, with doom hidden in them like a razor in a cake. The middling maidens—the ones best seen by candlelight, corseted and rouged—have nothing to worry about.” Michael Cunningham offers a fresh perspective on tales of old in his short story collection A Wild Swan. From Beauty and the Beast to Jack and the Beanstalk, Cunningham breathes new life into these fairy tales by blending modern sensibilities with folkloric traditions. His stories are further enhanced by Yuko Shimizu’s beautifully haunting illustrations. My favorites in this collection included A Wild Swan (The Six Swans), A Monkey’s Paw, and Poisoned (Snow White). A collection of re-worked fairy tales with flawed though familiar characters and a contemporary spin, but retaining the fairy-tale magic. For instance ... "This was not a smart boy we're talking about .... Jack is the boy who says 'Wow, dude, magic beans, really!' " The tales are a little wicked, some a little bawdy, but also quite humorous. One's I liked are: Crazy Old Lady (Hansel and Gretel) Jacked (Jack and the Beanstalk) Little Man. (Rumplestiltskin) Her Hair (Rapunzul) And The Monkey's Paw 4 stars overall (I'd give some of the tales 5 stars)
A likable and occasionally provocative set of variations on kid-lit themes. But this is still Michael Cunningham we’re talking about. He can’t help but write movingly, even as he’s setting fire to our most cherished childhood texts. This book is studded with unexpected moments of grace. ContienePremi e riconoscimentiMenzioniElenchi di rilievo
"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 away--the mythic figures of our childhoods and the source of so much of our wonder--are 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 devouring smile aimed at the cashier. A malformed little man with a knack for minor acts of wizardry goes to disastrous lengths to procure a child. A loutish and lazy Jack prefers living in his mother's basement to getting a job, until the day he trades a cow for a handful of magic beans. Reimagined by one of the most gifted storytellers of his generation, and exquisitely illustrated by Yuko Shimizu, rarely have our bedtime stories been this dark, this perverse, or this true"--
"A twisted retelling of classic fairy tales from the novelist Michael Cunningham"-- Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999Classificazione LCVotoMedia:
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Un livre dans les trois petits points du titre, juste après le bonheur et les enfants, là où l’ennui et le blues commencent à œuvrer dans leur travail de sape et de destruction lente.
Et si la princesse était ma voisine de pallier, celle du troisième avec des bigoudis ( )