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World Fantasy Award–winning editors Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling return with another superb collection of wonders and terrors. In Black Thorn, White Rose, the magical tales we were told at bedtime have been upended, turned inside out, reshaped, and given a keen, distinctly adult edge by eighteen of the most acclaimed storytellers ever to reinvent a fairy tale. Our favorite characters, from Sleeping Beauty to Rumpelstiltskin to the Gingerbread Man, are here but in different guises, brought to new life by such masters as Nancy Kress, Jane Yolen, Storm Constantine, and the late, great Roger Zelazny.
These breathtaking tales of dark enchantments range from the tragic and poignant to the humorous to the horrifying to the simply astonishing. The story of an aging woodcutter persuaded to help a desperate prince make his way through the brambles to save a sleeping beauty twists ingeniously around like the thorny wall that impedes them. The fable of an all-controlling queen mother who faces her most fearsome adversary in a sensitive princess who appears mysteriously during a storm is a dark, disturbing masterpiece. And readers will long remember the exquisite tale of Death, his godson, football, and MTV.
Anyone who has ever loved or even feared the old tales of witches and trolls and remarkable transformations will find much to admire in this extraordinary collection—happily ever after or not.
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Creators
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Patricia C. WredeContributor
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Michael KandelContributor
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Peter StraubContributor
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Ellen DatlowEditor
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Terri WindlingEditor
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Jane YolenContributor
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Roger ZelaznyContributor
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Michael CadnumContributor
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Ellen SteiberContributor
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Howard WaldropContributor
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Ann DownerContributor
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Daniel QuinnContributor
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M.E. BeckettContributor
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Nancy KressContributor
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Susan WadeContributor
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Lawrence SchimelContributor
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Isabel ColeContributor
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Midori SnyderContributor
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Tim Wynne-JonesContributor
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Storm ConstantineContributor
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Publisher
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Release date
September 30, 2014 -
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Kindle Book
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OverDrive Read
- ISBN: 9781497668591
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EPUB ebook
- ISBN: 9781497668591
- File size: 4502 KB
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Languages
- English
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Reviews
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Starred review from August 29, 1994
Datlow and Windling (Snow White, Blood Red), winners of the World Fantasy Award for Best Anthology, have compiled a second volume of ``fairy tales for adults''-an enchanting, witty collection of 18 original stories that in general achieve relevance without losing their patina of magic. A case in point is Jane Yolen's brilliant retelling of Rumpelstiltskin story, in which the ``imp'' is a Jewish moneylender caught in a pogrom because he helped the wrong princess. Equally impressive is Midori Snyder's subtly feminist story about how to keep love alive after ``happily ever after'' has been going on for a while. Several comic entries include Michael Cadnum's hip retelling of the Gingerbread Man story, Howard Waldrop's entry about about Prohibition gangsters at a music festival. The anthology's many powerful themes (e.g., the tyranny of beauty, the sanctity of life) are taken up as suitably by the traditional fantasy voices of Patricia C. Wrede and Nancy Kress as they are in Roger Zelazny's more experimental entry. Even more than its predecessor, this superior volume proves that the notion of modern-day Grimms, Andersens and Wildes isn't just a fairy tale.
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