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The Collected Enchantments
Hardcover
Publisher Price: $39.99
ISBN13: 9781732644076
Publisher: Norilana Books
Published: Feb 14 2023
Pages: 436
Weight: 1.54
Height: 1.13 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
A monumental career retrospective
This vibrant collection brings together World Fantasy Award winner Goss's exquisite interpretations of and variations on familiar folk and fairy tales. The [poems and stories] span the length of Goss's career ... All approach well-known stories from unexpected angles and with deep empathy for the characters ... The abundance of pieces sometimes has the effect of a musical fugue: common motifs, places, and characters echo through the works, with each reappearance adding something fresh.
For Goss, fairy tales are less a set of texts than a language she's become fluent in ... the result is a lyrical, resonant voice and a vision not quite like anyone else's.
-LocusA wicked stepsister frets over all the ways in which she failed to receive her mother's love. A lost woman travels through an enchanted forest looking for someone who can remind her of her name. A girl must wear down seven pairs of shoes to gain help from a witch. A fox makes a life with a human, but neither can deny their true natures. A young woman returns to her childhood home and the fantastic stories she left there. A man lets himself be taken prisoner by the Snow Queen to prove that the woman who loves him would walk barefoot through the ice to save him. Medusa cuts her hair for love.
The Collected Enchantments gathers retellings of folk and fairy tales in prose and verse from World Fantasy and Locus award-winning author Theodora Goss, creator of The Extraordinary Adventures of the Athena Club series. Drawing from her Mythopoeic Award-nominated collections In the Forest of Forgetting and Songs for Ophelia and her Mythopoeic Award-winning tome Snow White Learns Witchcraft, and adding new and uncollected stories and poems, The Collected Enchantments provides a resounding demonstration of how, as Hugo and Nebula award winner Jo Walton writes, Goss provides a vivid, authentic and important voice that, in the words of Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association Grand Master Jane Yolen, transposes, transforms, and transcends times, eras, and old tales with ease.
PRAISE FOR THEODORA GOSS
In the tradition of great modern fantasists like Angela Carter and Marina Warner, Theodora Goss's sublime tales are modern classics-beautiful, sly, sensual and deeply moving . . . I envy any reader encountering Goss's work for the first time.
-Elizabeth Hand
Goss's language fits together like gems in a complex crown, a diadem of images and motifs, resting gently on the head, but with a deceptive weight.
-Catherynne M. Valente
Theodora Goss re-fleshes and re-clothes old tales in multifarious ways. Through prose and poetry, Goss shines her unique light into the fairytale forest-and many bright eyes gleam back.
-Margo Lanagan
With cover art by Catrin Welz-Stein and interior black and white illustrations by Paula Arwen Owen.
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