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My mother she killed me, my father he ate me : forty new fairy tales

Bernheimer, Kate. (Added Author). Giménez Smith, Carmen, 1971- (Added Author).

Summary: The fairy tale lives again in these forty new stories by some of the biggest names in contemporary fiction Neil Gaiman, Michael Cunningham, Aimee Bender, Kelly Link, Lydia Millet, and more than thirty other extraordinary writers celebrate fairy tales in this thrilling volume.

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ISBN: 9780143117841 (trade pbk.)
ISBN: 014311784X (trade pbk.)
Physical Description: print
xxxi, 543 p. ; 22 cm.
Publisher: New York : Penguin Books, 2010.

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:

Drawing the curtain / by Gregory Maguire -- Baba Iaga and the pelican child / Joy Williams -- Ardour / Jonathon Keats -- I'm here / Ludmilla Petrushevskaya -- The brother and the bird / Alissa Nutting -- Hansel and Gretel / Francine Prose -- A day in the life / Kevin Brockmeier -- With hair of hand-spun gold / Neil LaBute -- The Swan brothers / Shelley Jackson -- The warm mouth / Joyelle McSweeney -- Snow White, Rose Red / Lydia Millet -- The Erlking / Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum -- Dapplegrim / Brian Evenson -- The wild swans / Michael Cunningham -- Halfway people / Karen Joy Fowler -- The mermaid / Timothy Schaffert -- What the conch shell sings when the body is gone / Katherine Vaz -- The 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 -- The girl, the wolf, the crone / Kellie Wells -- My brother Gary made a movie and this is what happened / Sabrina Orah Mark -- The color master / Aimee Bender -- The 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 -- The story of the mosquito / Lily Hoang -- First day of snow / Naoko Awa -- I am Anjuhimeko / Hiromi Ito -- Coyote takes us home / Michael Mejia -- Ever after / Kim Addonizio -- Whitework / Kate Bernheimer.