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These are the moments that fairy tales forgot or deliberately concealed, reimagined by one of the most gifted storytellers of his generation, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Hours, and exquisitely illustrated by Yuko Shimizu. The Beast stands in line at a convenience store, buying cigarettes and a Slim Jim, his devouring smile aimed at the cashier. A malformed little man with a talent for minor acts of wizardry goes to disastrous lengths to obtain a child, while a lazy, loutish Jack prefers living in his mother’s basement to getting a job until he trades a cow for a handful of magic beans. In these tales, the people and talismans of faraway lands, the mythical figures of childhood and the source of so much wonder, become stories of sublime revelation. Rarely have bedtime stories been this dark, perverse or true.
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Author: Cunningham Michael
Language: English
Publication date: November 17, 2016
Genres: English literature, Books, Foreign language books
Type: Paperback book
Pages: 135
ISBN/EAN: 9780008140403