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Horse, flower, bird : stories / Kate Bernheimer.
Van Pelt Library PS3602.E76 H67 2010
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bernheimer, Kate.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Fairy tales--Adaptations.
- Fairy tales.
- Genre:
- Short stories.
- Adaptations.
- Physical Description:
- 185 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis : Coffee House Press, 2010.
- Summary:
- In Kate Bernheimer's familiar and spare--yet wondrous--world, an exotic dancer builds her own cage, a wife tends a secret basement menagerie, a fishmonger's daughter befriends a tulip bulb, and sisters explore cycles of love and violence by reenacting scenes from Star Wars. Enthralling, subtle, and poetic, this collection takes readers back to the age-old pleasures of classic fairy tales and makes them new--Cover.
- Contents:
- A cuckoo tale
- A tulip's tale
- A doll's tale
- A petting zoo tale
- A cageling tale
- A Garibaldi tale
- A Star Wars tale
- Whitework.
- ISBN:
- 9781566892476
- 1566892473
- OCLC:
- 601125129
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