Wild Swan

Fairy tales for our times from the Pulitzer Prizeûwinning author of The Hours Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR, Slate, and Bustle A poisoned apple and a monkeyÆs paw with the power to change fate; a girl whose extraordinarily long hair causes catastrophe; a man with one human arm and one swanÆs wing; and a house constructed of gumdrops and gingerbread. In A Wild Swan and Other Tales, the people and the talismans of lands far, far awayùthe mythic figures of our childhoods and the source of so much of our wonderùare 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. 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.

• | Author: Michael Cunningham
• | Publisher: Picador
• | Publication Date: Oct 25, 2016
• | Number of Pages: 144 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback/Fiction
• | ISBN-10: 1250097304
• | ISBN-13: 9781250097309