| Description |
xxxi, 543 pages ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
Drawing the curtain / by Gregory Maguire -- Baba Iaga and the pelican child / Joy Williams -- Ardour / Jonathon Keats -- I'm here / Ludmilla Petrushevskaya -- Brother and the bird / Alissa Nutting -- Hansel and Gretel / Francine Prose -- A day in the life of half of Rumpslstiltskin / Kevin Brockmeier -- With hair of hand-spun gold / Neil LaBute -- Swan brothers / Shelley Jackson -- Warm mouth / Joyelle McSweeney -- Snow White, Rose Red / Lydia Millet -- Erlking / Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum -- Dapplegrim / Brian Evenson -- Wild swans / Michael Cunningham -- Halfway people / Karen Joy Fowler -- Green air / Rikki Ducoret -- Mermaid / Timothy Schaffert -- What the conch shell sings when the body is gone / Katherine Vaz -- Snow Queen / Karen Brennan -- Eyes of dogs / Lucy Corin -- Little pot / Ilya Kaminsky -- A bucket of warm spit / Michael Martone -- Catskin / Kelly Link -- Teague O'Kane and the corpse / Chris Adrian -- Pleasure boating in Lituya Bay / Jim Shepard -- Body-without-soul / Kathryn Davis -- Girl, the wolf, the crone / Kellie Wells -- My brother Gary made a movie and this is what happened / Sabrina Orah Mark -- Color master / Aimee Bender -- White cat / Marjorie Sandor -- Blue-bearded lover / Joyce Carol Oates -- Bluebeard in Ireland / John Updike -- A kiss to wake the sleeper / Rabih Alameddine -- A case study of emergency room procedure and risk management by hospital staff members in the urban facility / Stacey Richter -- Orange / Neil Gaiman -- Psyche's dark night / Francesca Lia Block -- Story of the mosquito / Lily Hoang -- First day of snow / Naoko Awa -- I am Anjuhimeko / Hiromi Itō -- Coyote takes us home / Michael Mejia -- Ever after / Kim Addonizio -- Whitework / Kate Bernheimer. |
| Summary |
The founder of the literary journal "Fairy Tale Review" collects stories inspired by classic fairy tales and written by such authors as Joyce Carol Oates, John Updike, Francine Prose, Kevin Brockmeier, and Shelley Jackson. |
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Short stories, American.
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Short stories, American. |
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Short stories, American.
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| Subject |
Short stories, English.
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Short stories, English. |
| Genre/Form |
Short stories, English.
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Fairy tales -- United States.
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Fairy tales. |
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United States. |
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Fairy tales -- Great Britain.
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Great Britain. |
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Short stories, American. |
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Short stories, English. |
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Fairy tales -- United States. |
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Fairy tales -- Great Britain. |
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Fiction.
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Fiction.
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| Added Author |
Bernheimer, Kate, editor.
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Giménez Smith, Carmen, 1971- editor.
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Maguire, Gregory, writer of foreword.
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| ISBN |
9780143117841 |
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014311784X |
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