Acclaimed Irish author Emma Donoghue unravels 13 familiar stories and recasts them into a collection of remarkable fairy tales. 2000 List of Popular Paperbacks for YA.
Using the intricate patterns and oral rhythms of traditional fairy tales, Emma Donoghue wraps age-old characters in a dazzling new skin.
In these fairy tales, women young and old tell their own stories of love and hate, honor and revenge, passion and deception.
Acclaimed writer Emma Donoghue spins new Tales out of old in a magical web of thirteen interconnected stories about power and transformation and choosing one\'s own path in the world.
Told with luminous voices that shimmer with sensuality and truth, these age-old characters shed their antiquated cloaks to travel a seductive new landscape, radiantly transformed.
Cinderella forsakes the handsome prince and runs off with the fairy godmother
Beauty discovers the Beast behind the mask is not so very different from the face she sees in the mirror
Snow White is awakened from slumber by the bittersweet fruit of an unnamed desire.
Acclaimed Irish author Emma Donoghue reveals heroines young and old in unexpected alliances--sometimes treacherous, sometimes erotic, but always courageous.
Thirteen Tales are unspun from the deeply familiar, and woven anew into a collection of fairy Tales that wind back through time.
Using the intricate patterns and oral rhythms of traditional fairy tales, Donoghue wraps age-old characters in a dazzling new skin.
Their journeys take them into a strange and delightful landscape.
Cinderella, Beauty, Rapunzel, and others are revealed in their own beguiling narratives, voices that shimmer with wisdom and truth.
Acclaimed Irish author Emma Donoghue unravels 13 familiar stories and recasts them into a collection of remarkable fairy tales
