My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me
The fairy tale lives again in this book of forty new stories by some of the biggest names in contemporary fiction. Neil Gaiman, aOrangea Aimee Bender, aThe Color Mastera Joyce Carol Oates, aBlue-bearded Lovera Michael Cunningham, aThe Wild Swansa These and more than thirty other stories by Francine Prose, Kelly Link, Jim Shepard, Lydia Millet, and many other extraordinary writers make up this thrilling celebration of fairy talesathe ultimate literary costume party. Spinning houses and talking birds. Whispered secrets and borrowed hope. Here are new stories sewn from old skins, gathered by visionary editor Kate Bernheimer and inspired by everything from Hans Christian Andersenas aThe Snow Queena and aThe Little Match Girla to Charles Perraultas aBluebearda and aCinderellaa to the Brothers Grimmas aHansel and Gretela and aRumpelstiltskina to fairy tales by Goethe and Calvino and from China, Japan, Vietnam, Russia, Norway, and Mexico. 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.Oh, now ita#39;s rush hour, golden hour, and all the Cadillacs chauffeuring our mothers to the suburban Seven Cities Mall are ... Hea#39;s got a million MySpace friendsamostly gay men and twelve-year-old girlsaand a great big contract with Televisa.
| Title | : | My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me |
| Author | : | Kate Bernheimer |
| Publisher | : | Penguin - 2010-09-28 |
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