{"product_id":"9780374290252","title":"Michael Cunningham - A Wild Swan And Other Tales","description":"\u003cp\u003eWritten by Michael Cunningham. Themes include Fiction, Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends \u0026amp; Mythology, Literary, World Literature, American.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFairy tales for our times from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Hours\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eA poisoned apple and a monkey's paw with the power to change fate; a girl whose extraordinarily long hair causes catastrophe; a man with one human arm and one swan's wing; and a house deep in the forest, constructed of gumdrops and gingerbread, vanilla frosting and boiled sugar. In \u003ci\u003eA Wild Swan and Other Tales\u003c\/i\u003e, the people and the talismans of lands far, far away—the mythic figures of our childhoods and the source of so much of our wonder—are transformed by Michael Cunningham into stories of sublime revelation. \u003cbr\u003e 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. The Beast stands ahead of you in line at the convenience store, buying smokes and a Slim Jim, his devouring smile aimed at the cashier. A malformed little man with a knack for minor acts of wizardry goes to disastrous lengths to procure a child. A loutish and lazy Jack prefers living in his mother's basement to getting a job, until the day he trades a cow for a handful of magic beans.\u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e Hardcover\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAll books at Vastela are pre-owned. Condition varies from good to near-new. No book is sold in unacceptable condition.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vastela Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58012833481078,"sku":null,"price":12.0,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0707\/7144\/1981\/files\/9780374290252.jpg?v=1780502377","url":"https:\/\/www.vastelabooks.com\/products\/9780374290252","provider":"Vastela Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}