The complete tales of Lucy Gold / by Kate Bernheimer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bernheimer, Kate.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Young women--Fiction.

Young women.

Women animators--Fiction.

Women animators.

Magic--Fiction.

Magic.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (128 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Tuscaloosa : FC2/University of Alabama Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

As a child, Lucy dreams of talking fairies and lives contentedly in the wooded suburbs of Boston; she grows up to be a successful animator of fairy-tale films. Or does she? She claims at moments to be a witch in the woods. Like her sisters, who appeared in Bernheimer's first two novels (The Complete Tales of Ketzia Gold and The Complete Tales of Merry Gold), Lucy has a secret, but she is unable to fasten onto anything but brightness. Novelist Donna Tartt writes, "Lucy's particular brand of optimism, blind to its own shadow, is very American-she is inn

Contents:

Contents; Chapter One: The Golden Key; Chapter Two; Chapter Three - Pennies, Nickels, and Dimes; Chapter Four; Chapter Five - Things Can Always Get Worse; Chapter Six; Chapter Seven - Good Lucy; Chapter Eight; Chapter Nine; Chapter Ten - "Friendly Animals"; Chapter Eleven; Chapter Twelve; Chapter Thirteen - Two Sisters; Chapter Fourteen; Chapter Fifteen - The Ladies' Room; Chapter Sixteen; Chapter Seventeen - Clever Lucy and Foolish Ketzia and Merry; Chapter Eighteen; Chapter Nineteen - Lucy's Ballad; Chapter Twenty - The Messenger of Death; Chapter Twenty-One - "Friendly Animals"

Chapter Twenty-Two - Lucy's Sister Comes BacKChapter Twenty-Three; Chapter Twenty-Four - Merry and Lucy; Chapter Twenty-Five; Chapter Twenty-Six; Chapter Twenty-Seven - The Death of Lucy; Chapter Twenty-Eight - The Bright Sun Will Bring Lucy to Light; Chapter Twenty-Nine - "Anecdote"; Chapter Thirty; Chapter Thirty-One - The Three Sisters; Chapter Thirty-Two; Chapter Thirty-Three; Chapter Thirty-Four - Sisters in a Pit; Chapter Thirty-Five - "The Golden Key"; Chapter Thirty-Six; Chapter Thirty-Seven; Chapter Thirty-Eight - Friendly Lucy; Chapter Thirty-Nine - A Riddling Tale

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Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1-57366-821-4

OCLC:

772845462