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My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me: Forty New Fairy Tales

Kate Bernheimer (Editor),

Gregory Maguire (Foreward)

Start date: November 23, 2010

Finish date: January 23, 2011

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Feb 29, 2012 Melki rated it really liked it

Shelves: folk-fairy-tales

This is a fairly decent collection of "updated" fairy tales from around the world. Familiar names like Joyce Carol Oates, Neil Gaiman, Michael Cunningham, and more create "new stories sewed from old skins" by adding twists and spins to classic stories. And like many of the grimmer fairy tales, these stories are definitely NOT for children.

Each tale concludes with a few paragraphs by the authors explaining why a particular story was chosen. This was an unexpected and interesting glimpse into the ...more

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Mar 18, 2012 Matilda rated it it was ok

so so mixed, the introduction was sublime ans set my expectations so high. However thee were only a few really strong tales, the colour master, orange, the pelican child and catskin come to mind. Many took all the magic and wonder out of the fairy tales and substituted it with depressing modern reality: drug problems, failed relationships and sexual abuse. However, I would recommend it for the few gems and the authors' comments at the end which were sometimes more interesting than the stories th ...more

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