{"product_id":"wild-swan-paperback","title":"Wild Swan - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMichael Cunningham\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\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\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNamed a Best Book of the Year by NPR, \u003ci\u003eSlate, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eBustle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\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 constructed of gumdrops and gingerbread. 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHere 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. 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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMICHAEL CUNNINGHAM \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of seven novels, including A Home at the End of the World, Flesh and Blood, The Hours (winner of the PEN\/Faulkner Award and the Pulitzer Prize), Specimen Days, and The Snow Queen, as well as Land's End: A Walk in Provincetown. He lives in New York City and teaches at Yale University. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eYUKO SHIMIZU \u003c\/b\u003eis a Japanese illustrator based in New York City whose work has been featured in Time, Newsweek, The New York Times, and The New Yorker. Her self-titled monograph was published by Gestalten in 2011, and her drawings appeared in Barbed Wire Baseball, written by Marissa Moss. Shimizu teaches illustration at the School of Visual Arts.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 144\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 7.1 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 25, 2016\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53464563876147,"sku":"9781250097309","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0990\/0746\/3731\/files\/fwMAYxLxE-9781250097309.webp?v=1781451972","url":"https:\/\/rbangel-store.myshopify.com\/products\/wild-swan-paperback","provider":"The Celestial Starlit Phoenix ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}