Tangleweed and Brine by Deirdre Sullivan
With an additional story in this paperback edition, this collection offers bewitched retellings of classic fairy-tales featuring brave and resilient heroines. In the tradition of Angela Carter, stories such as Cinderella and Rumpelstiltskin are given a witchy makeover. These tales of blood and intrigue, betrayal, and enchantment from a new Irish author are not for the faint-hearted, or damsels in distress. The stories are intricately illustrated with black and white line drawings, in the style of Aubrey Beardsley, by a new Irish illustrator.
`Deirdre Sullivan's writing is beguiling, bewitching and poeticHer prose is almost dreamlike, reminiscent of Angela Carter.' - Juno Dawson, author of The Gender Games ; 'Witchy, eerie and beautiful. These thirteen fairytale retellings already feel like feminist classics.' - Claire Hennessy, author of Like Other Girls ; `Sullivan's prose is delicate and masterful, but there's a belligerence to it as well - these stories demand that we go as deeply with our reading as she has in her writing - that we listen to the women at the heart of these stories, that we see the shadows beneath the trees.' - Dave Rudden, author of Knights of the Borrowed Dark ; `Dark, intimate and poetic, these stunning feminist fairy tales give voice to the witches & the wicked queens and twist the familiar into something salty & seductive, offering a collection of stories you'll feel like you know in your bones.' - Moira Fowley-Doyle, author of Spellbook of the Lost and Found ; 'Deirdre Sullivan's terse and stark renditions of fairy tales in Tangleweed and Brine challenge us to rethink what the destinies of young women were in traditional fairy tales, and she spells out what they might really be in other times and settings. Sullivan's original stories are riveting and offer readers unusual perspectives on how to read fairy tales in times of conflict.' - Jack Zipes, author of The Irresistible Fairy Tale: The Social and Cultural History of a Genre
Sullivan, Deirdre: - Deirdre Sullivan is the author of Ming Goes to School. She lives in Boston, Massachusetts, with her husband, four daughters, and a sweet black lab. You can visit her online at www.deirdrecsullivan.com.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781910411926 |
| ISBN 10 | 1910411922 |
| Title | Tangleweed and Brine |
| Author | Deirdre Sullivan |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Little Island |
| Year published | 2017-09-07 |
| Number of pages | 180 |
| Prizes | Winner of Irish Times Ticket Readers' Choice for Best Young Adult Fiction 2017, Winner of Book of the Year at the Children's Books Ireland Awards 2018, Winner of Best YA Book of the Year - Irish Book Awards 2017, Short-listed for Best Irish-published Book - Irish Book Awards 2017 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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