Daydreams Of Angels: Stories

The fantastic has always been at the edges of Heather OÆNeillÆs work. In her bestselling novels, Lullabies for Little Criminals and The Girl Who Was Saturday Night, she transforms the shabbiest streets of Montreal with her beautiful, freewheeling metaphors. She describes the smallest of thingsùa stray cat or a secondhand coatùwith an intensity that makes them otherworldly. In Daydreams of Angels, OÆNeillÆs first collection of short stories, she gives free rein to her imaginative gifts. In ôSwan Lake for Beginners,ö generations of Nureyev clones live out their lives in a grand Soviet experiment. In ôThe Holy Dove Parade,ö a teenage cult follower writes a letter to explain the motivation behind her crime. And in another tale, a grandmother reveals where babies come from: the beach, where young mothers-to-be hunt for infants in the surf. Each of these beguiling stories twists the beloved narratives of childhoodùfairy tales, fables, Bible parablesùto uncover the deepest truths of family life.

• | Author: Heather O'Neill
• | Publisher: Farrar, Straus And Giroux
• | Publication Date: May 26, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 364 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback/Fiction
• | ISBN-10: 0374717885
• | ISBN-13: 9780374717889