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A Wild Swan: And Other Tales

English

By (author): Michael Cunningham

Illustrated by: Yuko Shimizu

Here are the moments that our fairy tales forgot or deliberately concealed, reimagined by one of the most gifted storytellers of his generation, the Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Hours, and exquisitely illustrated by Yuko Shimizu. Rarely have our bedtime stories been this dark, this perverse, or this true.

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.

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.

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Product Details
  • Weight: 210g
  • Dimensions: 153 x 221mm
  • Publication Date: 17 Nov 2016
  • Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780008140403

About Michael Cunningham

Michael Cunningham is the author of seven novels including A Home at the End of the World Flesh and Blood The Hours (winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Pulitzer Prize) Specimen Days and By Nightfall as well as Lands End: A Walk in Provincetown. He lives in New York. Yuko Shimizu is a Japanese illustrator based in New York whose work has been featured in Time Newsweek The New York Times and The New Yorker. Her first self-titled monograph was released from Gestalten in 2011; her first children's book illustrations appeared in Barbed Wire Baseball written by Marissa Moss. Shimizu teaches illustration at the School of Visual Arts.

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