My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me (Paperback, Ed)

The fairy tale lives again in this book of forty new stories by some of the biggest names in contemporary fiction.
Neil Gaiman, "Orange"
Aimee Bender, "The Color Master"
Joyce Carol Oates, "Blue-bearded Lover"
Michael Cunningham, "The Wild Swans"
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 tales--the 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 Andersen's "The Snow Queen" and "The Little Match Girl" to Charles Perrault's "Bluebeard" and "Cinderella" to the Brothers Grimm's "Hansel and Gretel" and "Rumpelstiltskin" 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.

General

Imprint:	Penguin USA
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	September 2010
First published:	September 2010
Editors:	Kate Bernheimer
Dimensions:	215 x 140 x 33mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	542
Edition:	Ed
ISBN-13:	978-0-14-311784-1
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction
LSN:	0-14-311784-X
Barcode:	9780143117841

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