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The Merry Spinster - Tales of everyday horror (Paperback)
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The Merry Spinster - Tales of everyday horror (Paperback)
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List price R280
Loot Price R228
Discovery Miles 2 280
You Save R52 (19%)
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'Dark and dreadful and persistently clever. Ortberg bloodily turns
familiar tales inside out.' Rainbow Rowell 'A collection of stories
delectable, formidable, and nimble. As a fantasist and short story
writer, Ortberg is without peer.' Kelly Link 'Ortberg has a
voracious appetite for poison apples, and a genius for finding the
places in fairyland where all the bodies are buried. The Merry
Spinster will ruin your most-loved fables, in the best possible
way.' Charlie Jane Anders 'Ortberg has the sloe gin wit of Dorothy
Parker and the soul of a Classics nerd. It's like both of them sat
next to each other in The Merry Spinster and gossiped away. The
result is an absolute delight.' John Scalzi 'Ortberg has created a
Frankenstein's monster of familiar narratives . . . [that swings]
between Terry Pratchett's satirical jocularity and Angela Carter's
sinister, shrewd storytelling, and the result is gorgeous,
unsettling, splenic, cruel, and wickedly smart. I've never read
anything quite like them, and I bet, Dear Reader, that you haven't
either.' Carmen Maria Machado A collection of darkly mischievous
stories based on classic fairy tales. Sinister and inviting,
familiar and alien all at the same time, The Merry Spinster updates
traditional children's stories and fairy tales with elements of
psychological horror, emotional clarity, and a keen sense of
feminist mischief. Unfalteringly faithful to its beloved source
material, The Merry Spinster also illuminates the unsuspected, and
frequently alarming, emotional complexities at play in the stories
we tell ourselves and each other as we tuck ourselves in for the
night. Bed time will never be the same.
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