How a Mother Weaned Her Girl from Fairy Tales

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How a Mother Weaned Her Girl from Fairy Tales
Author : Kate Bernheimer
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Publisher : Coffee House Press
Language : English
Release Date : 14 July 2014
ISBN : 9781566893480
Pages : 188 pages
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How a Mother Weaned Her Girl from Fairy Tales by Kate Bernheimer Book PDF Summary

Elegant and brutal, the stories in Kate Bernheimer's latest collection occupy a heightened landscape, where the familiar cedes to the grotesque and nonsense just as often devolves into terror. These are fairy tales out of time, renewing classic stories we think we know, like one of Bernheimer's girls, whose hands of steel turn to flowers, leaving her beautiful but alone. Kate Bernheimer is the author of the short story collection Horse, Flower, Bird and the editor of My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me: Forty New Fairy Tales and the journal Fairy Tale Review.

How a Mother Weaned Her Girl from Fairy Tales

Elegant and brutal, the stories in Kate Bernheimer's latest collection occupy a heightened landscape, where the familiar cedes to the grotesque and nonsense just as often devolves into terror. These are fairy tales out of time, renewing classic stories we think we know, like one of Bernheimer's girls, whose hands

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