Kissing the Witch: Old Tales in New Skins by Donoghue, Emma

Kissing the Witch: Old Tales in New Skins

Thirteen tales are unspun from the deeply familiar, and woven anew into a collection of fairy tales...
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Author: Emma Donoghue
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Language: English
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Kissing the Witch: Old Tales in New Skins by Donoghue, Emma

Kissing the Witch: Old Tales in New Skins

$19.50

Kissing the Witch: Old Tales in New Skins

$19.50
Author: Emma Donoghue
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Thirteen tales are unspun from the deeply familiar, and woven anew into a collection of fairy tales that wind back through time. Acclaimed Irish author Emma Donoghue reveals heroines young and old in unexpected alliances--sometimes treacherous, sometimes erotic, but always courageous. 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 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. In these fairy tales, women young and old tell their own stories of love and hate, honor and revenge, passion and deception. Using the intricate patterns and oral rhythms of traditional fairy tales, Emma Donoghue wraps age-old characters in a dazzling new skin.

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Author: Emma Donoghue
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 09/13/2024
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 8.00h x 4.70w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9780064407724
Audience: Young Adult


Review Citation(s):
Ingram Children's Advance 06/01/1999 pg. 73
Booklist 06/15/1999 pg. 1811
ALA Recmd for Reluctant YA's 01/01/2000 pg. 1362
Booklist 05/15/2000 pg. 1753
Publishers Weekly 04/05/1999

About the Author
Donoghue, Emma: -

Emma Donoghue is a novelist, screenwriter, and playwright. Room sold almost three million copies, won the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, and was shortlisted for the Man Booker and Orange Prizes. Donoghue scripted the Canadian-Irish film adaptation, which was nominated for four Academy Awards, including Best Picture. The Wonder was shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, and Donoghue co-wrote the 2022 screen adaptation for Netflix. The Pull of the Stars was a finalist for the Trillium Book Award and was longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize. Haven was shortlisted for the 2024 Dublin Literary Award. Donoghue's fiction ranges from the contemporary (Stir-Fry, Hood, Landing, Touchy Subjects, Akin) to the historical (Learned by Heart, Slammerkin, The Sealed Letter, Astray, Frog Music) and includes two books for young readers, The Lotterys Plus One and The Lotterys More or Less.

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