Rise / L. Annette Binder.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Binder, L. Annette, 1967-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fairy tales.

Physical Description:

x, 155 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Louisville, Ky. : Sarabande Books, [2012]

Summary:

The stories in Rise are fairy tales, except that the witch, lucky Hans, and the frog prince are all characters at the fringes of everyday life. There are rockets, swells of starlings, and children who disappear into thin air. In "Nephilim" angels mate with mortal women and birth giants; Freda is more than fifty and still listening to the creak of her bones growing. In "Halo" a nimbus appears above the heads of those with only a short time to live. The hospital, of course, is full of them, but so is the mall. These are stories where a man can be blind and still see the stars. L. Annette Binder writes magical tales with authority and restraint, and we believe her stories, every one. Book jacket.

Contents:

Nephilim

Galatea

Nod

Wrecking ball

Shelter

Tremble

Dead languages

Rise

Halo

Sea of tranquility

Weights and measures

Mourning the departed

Sidewinder

Lay my head.

Notes:

"Winner of the 2011 Mary McCarthy Prize in short fiction."

ISBN:

9781936747399

1936747391

9781936747313

1936747316

OCLC:

756582235