Black Swan, White Raven Ellen Datlow

Black Swan, White Raven

Author: Ellen Datlow
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Book Title
Black Swan, White Raven
Author
Ellen Datlow
ISBN
9780809572540
A stellar assymbly of many of today's most creative and accomplished storytellers has gathered around the tribal fire to embroider well-worn yarns with new golden thread. Black Swan, White Raven revisits the tales that charmed, enthralled, and terrified us in our early youth -- carrying us aloft into the healthy, beating heart of cherished myth to tell once again the stories of Rumpelstiltskins and sleeping beauties, only this time from an edgy, provocative and distinctly adult perspective. The themes and archetypes of our beloved childhood fiction are reexamined in a darker light by 21 superb teller of tales who deftly uncover the ironic, the outrageous, the enigmatic and the erotic at the core of the world's best-known fables, while revealing the sobering truths and lies behind "happily ever after." Binding Type: PaperbackAuthor: Ellen Datlow, Terri WindlingPublisher: Wildside PressPublished: 06/09/2008ISBN: 9780809572540Pages: 368Weight: 0.64lbsSize: 8.24h x 5.45w x 1.04d
  • A stellar assymbly of many of today's most creative and accomplished storytellers has gathered around the tribal fire to embroider well-worn yarns with new golden thread. Black Swan, White Raven revisits the tales that charmed, enthralled, and terrified us in our early youth -- carrying us aloft into the healthy, beating heart of cherished myth to tell once again the stories of Rumpelstiltskins and sleeping beauties, only this time from an edgy, provocative and distinctly adult perspective. The themes and archetypes of our beloved childhood fiction are reexamined in a darker light by 21 superb teller of tales who deftly uncover the ironic, the outrageous, the enigmatic and the erotic at the core of the world's best-known fables, while revealing the sobering truths and lies behind "happily ever after."


Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Ellen Datlow, Terri Windling
Publisher: Wildside Press
Published: 06/09/2008
ISBN: 9780809572540
Pages: 368
Weight: 0.64lbs
Size: 8.24h x 5.45w x 1.04d
  • A stellar assymbly of many of today's most creative and accomplished storytellers has gathered around the tribal fire to embroider well-worn yarns with new golden thread. Black Swan, White Raven revisits the tales that charmed, enthralled, and terrified us in our early youth -- carrying us aloft into the healthy, beating heart of cherished myth to tell once again the stories of Rumpelstiltskins and sleeping beauties, only this time from an edgy, provocative and distinctly adult perspective. The themes and archetypes of our beloved childhood fiction are reexamined in a darker light by 21 superb teller of tales who deftly uncover the ironic, the outrageous, the enigmatic and the erotic at the core of the world's best-known fables, while revealing the sobering truths and lies behind "happily ever after."


Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Ellen Datlow, Terri Windling
Publisher: Wildside Press
Published: 06/09/2008
ISBN: 9780809572540
Pages: 368
Weight: 0.64lbs
Size: 8.24h x 5.45w x 1.04d