Pulse en una miniatura para ir a Google Books.
|
Cargando... A Wild Swan and Other Talespor Michael Cunningham
   Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro.  mahsdad | May 25, 2024 |   Un livre dans les trois petits points du titre, juste après le bonheur et les enfants, là où l’ennui et le blues commencent à œuvrer dans leur travail de sape et de destruction lente. Et si la princesse était ma voisine de pallier, celle du troisième avec des bigoudis (  ) noid.ch | Mar 14, 2022 | Michael Cunningham offers a fresh perspective on tales of old in his short story collection A Wild Swan. From Beauty and the Beast to Jack and the Beanstalk, Cunningham breathes new life into these fairy tales by blending modern sensibilities with folkloric traditions. His stories are further enhanced by Yuko Shimizu’s beautifully haunting illustrations. My favorites in this collection included A Wild Swan (The Six Swans), A Monkey’s Paw, and Poisoned (Snow White). ( ) hianbai | May 28, 2020 |  ) AnnaHernandez | Oct 17, 2019 | "This was not a smart boy we're talking about .... Jack is the boy who says 'Wow, dude, magic beans, really!' " The tales are a little wicked, some a little bawdy, but also quite humorous. One's I liked are: Crazy Old Lady (Hansel and Gretel) Jacked (Jack and the Beanstalk) Little Man. (Rumplestiltskin) Her Hair (Rapunzul) And The Monkey's Paw 4 stars overall (I'd give some of the tales 5 stars) ( ) steller0707 | Aug 25, 2019 |
 A likable and occasionally provocative set of variations on kid-lit themes. But this is still Michael Cunningham we’re talking about. He can’t help but write movingly, even as he’s setting fire to our most cherished childhood texts. This book is studded with unexpected moments of grace. ContienePremiosDistincionesListas de sobresalientes
"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"--
"A twisted retelling of classic fairy tales from the novelist Michael Cunningham"-- No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
Debates activosNingunoCubiertas populares
 Google Books — Cargando...GénerosSistema Decimal Melvil (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999Clasificación de la Biblioteca del CongresoValoraciónPromedio: (3.7)
¿Eres tú?Conviértete en un Autor de LibraryThing. |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1
Quotes:
"Jacked" - Fair tales are generally moral tales. In the bleaker version of this one, mother and son both starve to death. That lesson would be: Mothers, try to be realistic about your imbecilic sons, no matter how charming their sly little grins, no matter how heartbreaking the dark-gold tousle of their hair. If you romanticize them, if you insist on virtues they clearly lack, if you persist in your blind desire to have raised a wise child, one who'll be helpful in your old age... don't be surprised if you find that you've fallen on the bathroom floor, and end up spending the night there, because he's out drinking with his friends until dawn.
"Steadfast; Tin" - They Stay married...because the marriage isn't all that bad, because getting unmarried seems so difficult, so frightening, so sad. They can separate after the kitchen is finished; after the kids are a little older; after they as a couple have finally passed through the realm of irritation and bickering, and reached the frozen waste of the unbearable. (