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How to Fracture a Fairy Tale
| Author: | Jane Yolen |
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Tachyon Publications, 2018 |
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| Genre: | Fantasy |
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Synopsis
Fantasy legend Jane Yolen (The Emerald Circus, The Devil's Arithmetic) delights with these effortlessly wide-ranging transformed fairy tales. Yolen fractures the classics to reveal their crystalline secrets, holding them to the light and presenting them entirely transformed, from a spinner of straw as a money-changer and to the big bad wolf retiring to a nursing home. Rediscover the fables you once knew, rewritten and refined for the world we now live in.
Table of Contents:
Stories
- "Snow in Summer"
- "The Bridge's Complaint"
- "The Moon Ribbon"
- "Godmother Death"
- "Happy Dens or A Day in the Old Wolves' Home"
- "Granny Rumple"
- "One Ox, Two Ox, Three Ox, and the Dragon King"
- "Brother Hart"
- "Sun/Flight"
- "Slipping Sideways Through Eternity"
- "The Foxwife"
- "The Faery Flag"
- "One Old Man, with Seals"
- "Sleeping Ugly"
- "The Undine"
- "Great-Grandfather Dragon's Tale"
- "Green Plague"
- "The Unicorn and the Pool"
- "The Golden Balls"
- "Sister Death"
- "Sule Skerry"
- "Once A Good Man"
- "Allerleirauh"
- "The Gwynhfar"
- "Cinder Elephant"
- "Mama Gone"
- "The Woman Who Loved A Bear"
- "Wrestling with Angels"
Poems
- "The Thing About Fairy Tales"
- "Prince Ever After"
- "Troll Maiden on the Bridge"
- "Learning from Those Other Princesses"
- "Stone Hand in Stone Hand: Norvelt Cemetery"
- "Once Upon A Wolf"
- "Spinning Straw"
- "'Story,'" the Old Man Said"
- "Green Children"
- "Icarus Fall"
- "Ovens"
- "Foxwife"
- "Carrying the Flag of Faery"
- "On Meeting A God"
- "Old Woman by the Well"
- "Warning from the Undine"
- "St. George's Sword and Word"
- "To Be Paid"
- "Rhinoceros"
- "Frog Meet Princess"
- "The Keening Woman"
- "When I Was A Selchie"
- "What Do We Need of Heaven"
- "Cinderella in the Ashes"
- "Not That Princess" Cinder Elephant
- "Fat Is Not A Fairy Tale"
- "The Vampire Regrets"
- "Marrying the Bear"
- "Jacob's Regret"
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