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03529aam a22005658i 4500 001 E13846E009B511E59737C9B2DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20200718010928 008 150126s2015 nyu 000 1 eng 010 $a 2015002963 020 $a 0374290253 (hardcover) 020 $a 9780374290252 (hardcover) 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d YDXCP $d BTCTA $d BDX $d OCLCO $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PS3553.U484 $b A6 2015 082 00 $a 813/.54 $2 23 084 $a JUV012040 $a FIC019000 $a JUV012040 $2 bisacsh 100 1 $a Cunningham, Michael, $d 1952- 240 10 $a Short stories. $k Selections 245 12 $a A wild swan : $b and other tales / $c Michael Cunningham ; illustrated by Yuko Shimizu. 263 $a 1511 264 1 $a New York : $b Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $c 2015. 300 $a pages ; cm 520 $a "Fairy tales for our times from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Hours A poisoned apple and a monkey's paw with the power to change fate; a girl whose extraordinarily long hair causes catastrophe; a man with one human arm and one swan's wing; and a house deep in the forest, constructed of gumdrops and gingerbread, vanilla frosting and boiled sugar. In A Wild Swan and Other Tales, the people and the talismans of lands far, far away--the mythic figures of our childhoods and the source of so much of our wonder--are transformed by Michael Cunningham into stories of sublime revelation. Here are the moments that our fairy tales forgot or deliberately concealed: the years after a spell is broken, the rapturous instant of a miracle unexpectedly realized, or the fate of a prince only half cured of a curse. The Beast stands ahead of you in line at the convenience store, buying smokes and a Slim Jim, his devouring smile aimed at the cashier. A malformed little man with a knack for minor acts of wizardry goes to disastrous lengths to procure a child. A loutish and lazy Jack prefers living in his mother's basement to getting a job, until the day he trades a cow for a handful of magic beans. Reimagined by one of the most gifted storytellers of his generation, and exquisitely illustrated by Yuko Shimizu, rarely have our bedtime stories been this dark, this perverse, or this true"-- $c Provided by publisher. 520 $a "A twisted retelling of classic fairy tales from the novelist Michael Cunningham"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 7 $a FICTION / Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a FICTION / Literary. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a JUVENILE FICTION / Fairy Tales & Folklore / Adaptations. $2 bisacsh 700 1 $a Shimizu, Yuko, $d 1965- $e illustrator. 941 $a 19 952 $l ALPE516 $d 20240417013403.0 952 $l SMPE094 $d 20240104013929.0 952 $l YEPF572 $d 20231012011439.0 952 $l WCPC115 $d 20230629022223.0 952 $l PNAX964 $d 20230602010259.0 952 $l YCPD572 $d 20220518020336.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20220507011322.0 952 $l LAPH975 $d 20211009011845.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20200806024041.0 952 $l TYPH572 $d 20200110063216.0 952 $l AAPF906 $d 20190717030224.0 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20181006091955.0 952 $l MMPE553 $d 20180719042823.0 952 $l NDPD953 $d 20180713051257.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20180106050802.0 952 $l GDPF771 $d 20170418112129.0 952 $l XWPC787 $d 20160429011059.0 952 $l S1PD771 $d 20160115050928.0 952 $l CAPH522 $d 20151203012153.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=E13846E009B511E59737C9B2DAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search