Tangleweed and Brine: YA Book of the Year, Irish Book Awards by Deirdre Sullivan

Tangleweed and Brine: YA Book of the Year, Irish Book Awards 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.

'An absolute stunner of a book'

-- Claire Hennessey * The Irish Times *

A tapestry of retellings and reimaginings, some told in beguiling second person, that foreground women - their desires, powers, fearsomeness and vulnerability ... enriched by Vaughan's sharp, intricate, Beardsleyesque illustrations.

-- Imogen Russell Williams * The Guardian *

This absolutely beautifully collection of retold fairy tales is as wonderful to read as it is to look at. Featuring lovely, feminist angles on your favourite fairy tales and beautiful full spread illustrations, it deserves a space on your shelf stat.

* Buzzfeed *

Sullivan muddies the black-and-white narratives, not only with murky endings, but with dark, dangerous, imperfect and even unhinged heroines. In doing so, she makes her fairy tales richer and more fertile, but also more adult... Her language is heavily perfumed with meaning... with its beautiful pen-and-ink illustrations reminiscent of Aubrey Beardsley's for Oscar Wilde's fairy tales, it would make a great gift for a teenager.

-- Hattie Garlick * The Times Literary Supplement *

Vaughan's artwork is captivatingly complex and disturbingly mesmeric, harking back to a previous generation of fairy-tale illustrators while significantly contributing to the synergy between this volume's words and images ... In Sullivan's enthralling renditions the feminine is inseparable from the political and the sexual ... An engrossing and terrifying work.

* Inis Magazine *

These fairy tale retellings are remarkable: they stop you in your tracks. They make you exclaim 'What! What did I just read?' I turned the pages backwards as often as I turned them forwards. The inky woodcut style drawings are an added bonus from Karen Vaughan. They exactly match the text, dark and light, astonishing, flowing.

-- Hilary McKay, novelist * Achuka.co.uk (round-up, best books of 2017) *

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	9781912417117
ISBN 10	1912417111
Title	Tangleweed and Brine: YA Book of the Year, Irish Book Awards
Author	Deirdre Sullivan
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Little Island
Year published	2018-10-18
Number of pages	196
Prizes	Winner of Teen & Young Adult Book of the Year 2017 (Ireland), Winner of Irish Times Ticket Readers' Choice for Best Young Adult Fiction 2017 (Ireland), Winner of Book of the Year 2018 (Ireland)
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.