2020 Locus Award finalist for Best CollectionContains A Country Called Winter, 2020 Locus Award finalist for Best NoveletteI was expecting this to be good, but it\'s wonderful.
Sometimes the stories\' new garments are classic and mythic, sometimes they\'re up-to-the-minute, twenty-first-century creati.
I am ready to reread some of my new favorites.
More praise for Snow White Learns WitchcraftTheodora Goss re-fleshes and re-clothes old tales in multifarious ways. . .
But also there is a core of tough magic that runs through all her pieces like a river through Faerie .
Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America Grand Master Jane Yolen, in her introduction, proclaims that Goss transposes, transforms, and transcends times, eras, and old tales with ease.
Sometimes harrowing, sometimes hilarious, always lyrical, the works gathered in Snow White Learns Witchcraft re-center and empower the women at the heart of these timeless narratives.
A wiser Snow White sets out to craft herself a new tale.
In these eight Stories and twenty-three poems, World Fantasy Award winner Theodora Goss retells and recasts fairy tales by Charles Perrault, the Brothers Grimm, Hans Christian Andersen, and Oscar Wilde.
The sea witch reveals what she hoped to gain when she took the mermaid\'s voice.
A bear wedding is cause for celebration, the spinning wheel and the tower in the briar hedge get to tell their own stories, and a kitchenmaid finds out that a lost princess is more than she seems.
The tasks assigned a bookish boy lead him to fateful encounters with lizards, owls, trolls and a feisty, sarcastic cat. --Publishers Weekly, starred reviewA young woman hunts for her wayward shadow at the school where she first learned magic--while another faces a test she never studied for as ice envelopes the world.
This toothsome collection is best read in one go. . . --Amal El-Mohtar, The New York TimesGoss takes obvious delight in reweaving classic European folk tales to reveal new, often deeply feminist, perspectives .
The fashion of these particular Stories and Poems is an abundance of lace, roses and porcelain contrasting with fur, Snow and blood. --Jo Walton, World Fantasy, Nebula, and Hugo award-winning author of Among OthersFairy tales are clothing, and to retell them is fashion.
I loved every word.
These are real fairytales, magical, unsettling, touching, and brilliant.
Seeing these pieces together makes me realize what a vivid, authentic and important voice Goss is. 2020 Locus Award finalist for Best CollectionContains A Country Called Winter, 2020 Locus Award finalist for Best NoveletteI was expecting this to be good, but it\'s wonderful
