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Sister Emily's Lightship and Other Stories
| Author: | Jane Yolen |
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Open Road Integrated Media, 2013 Tor, 2000 |
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| Book Type: | Collection |
| Genre: | Fantasy |
| Sub-Genre Tags: | Fairytale Fantasy |
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Synopsis
In these twenty-eight magnificent tales, which include two Nebula Award winners, Jane Yolen puts a provocative spin on familiar storybook worlds and beloved fairy tale characters.
One of the most acclaimed and honored authors in science fiction and fantasy, Jane Yolen has been called "the Hans Christian Andersen of America" for her brilliant reimagining of classic fairy tales. In her first collection of short stories written for an adult audience (after Tales of Wonder and Dragonfield), Yolen explores themes of freedom and justice, truth and consequence, and brings new life to our most cherished fables and myths.
Here are storybook realms rendered more contemporary, and cautionary tales made grimmer than Grimm: Snow White is transported to Appalachia to match wits with a snake-handling evil stepmother and Beauty's meeting with the Beast takes a twisty, O. Henry-esque turn; in Yolen's Nebula Award-winning "Lost Girls," a feminist revolt rocks Peter Pan's Neverland and in the collection's glorious title story--also a Nebula winner--the poet Emily Dickinson receives some unexpected and otherworldly inspiration. Sometimes dark, sometimes funny, and always enthralling, Sister Emily's Lightship is proof positive that Yolen is truly a folklorist of our times.
Table of Contents:
- The Traveler and the Tale - (1995) - shortstory
- Snow in Summer - (2000) - shortstory
- Speaking to the Wind - shortstory
- The Thirteenth Fey - (1985) - shortstory
- Granny Rumple - (1994) - shortstory
- Blood Sister - (1994) - novelette
- Journey into the Dark - (1995) - shortstory
- The Sleep of Trees - (1980) - shortstory
- The Uncorking of Uncle Finn - (1986) - shortstory
- Dusty Loves - (1988) - shortstory
- The Gift of the Magicians, with Apologies to You Know Who - (1992) - shortstory
- Sister Death - (1995) - shortstory
- The Singer and the Song - shortfiction
- Salvage - (1984) - shortstory
- Lost Girls - (1997) - novelette
- Belle Bloody Merciless Dame - (1997) - shortstory
- Words of Power - (1987) - shortstory
- Great Gray - (1991) - shortstory
- Under the Hill - shortstory
- Godmother Death - (1997) - shortstory
- Creationism: An Illustrated Lecture in Two Parts - (1990) - shortstory
- Allerleirauh - (1995) - shortstory
- Sun/Flight - (1982) - shortstory
- Dick W. and His Pussy; or, Tess and Her Adequate Dick - (1997) - shortstory
- Become a Warrior - (1998) - shortstory
- Memoirs of a Bottle Djinni - (1988) - shortstory
- A Ghost of an Affair - (2000) - shortstory
- Sister Emily's Lightship - (1996) - shortstory
- Afterword - essay
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