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A Wild Winter Swan - A Novel (Paperback)
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A Wild Winter Swan - A Novel (Paperback)
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Loot Price R301
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After brilliantly reimagining the worlds of Oz, Wonderland,
Dickensian London, and the Nutcracker, the New York Times
bestselling author of Wicked turns his unconventional genius to
Hans Christian Andersen's "The Wild Swans," transforming this
classic tale into an Italian-American girl's poignant coming-of-age
story, set amid the magic of Christmas in 1960s New York. Following
her brother's death and her mother's emotional breakdown, Laura now
lives on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, in a lonely townhouse
she shares with her old-world, strict, often querulous
grandparents. But the arrangement may be temporary. The quiet,
awkward teenager has been getting into trouble at home and has been
expelled from her high school for throwing a record album at a
popular girl who bullied her. When Christmas is over and the new
year begins, Laura may find herself at boarding school in Montreal.
Nearly unmoored from reality through her panic and submerged grief,
Laura is startled when a handsome swan boy with only one wing lands
on her roof. Hiding him from her ever-bickering grandparents, Laura
tries to build the swan boy a wing so he can fly home. But the task
is too difficult to accomplish herself. Little does Laura know that
her struggle to find help for her new friend parallels that of her
grandparents, who are desperate for a distant relative's financial
aid to save the family store. As he explores themes of class,
isolation, family, and the dangerous yearning to be saved by a
power greater than ourselves, Gregory Maguire conjures a haunting,
beautiful tale of magical realism that illuminates one young
woman's heartbreak and hope as she begins the inevitable journey to
adulthood.
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