The collected enchantments

The collected enchantments

Theodora Goss

Book - 2023

"A 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 Th...eodora 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 Jo Walton writes, Goss provides "a vivid, authentic and important voice" that, in the words of Jane Yolen, 'transposes, transforms, and transcends times, eras, and old tales with ease'"--Publisher's description.

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Subjects
Fantasy fiction, American.
Fantasy poetry, American.
Fantasy fiction.
Short stories.
Poetry.
Genres
Fantasy fiction
Short stories
Poetry
Published
Roanoke, Virginia : Mythic Delirium Books 2023.
Language
English
Main Author
Theodora Goss (author)
Edition
First edition
Physical Description
432 pages ; 23 cm
ISBN
9781956522020
9781732644076
Contents unavailable.
Review by Publisher's Weekly Review

This vibrant collection brings together World Fantasy Award winner Goss's exquisite interpretations of and variations on familiar folk and fairy tales. The 48 poems and 25 stories span the length of Goss's career, from her first published story ("The Rose in Twelve Petals," an impressionistic riff on "Sleeping Beauty," from 2002) to 17 pieces original to this volume. All approach well-known stories from unexpected angles and with deep empathy for the characters, delving into engaging questions like what motivates antagonists ("The Stepsister's Tale"), what happens after the fairy tale is over ("Rumpelstiltskin"; "Conversations with the Sea Witch"), and how things might have gone differently ("The Gold-Spinner"; "Girl, Wolf, Woods"). 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. However, the sheer breadth can also be overwhelming; that plus the high price point mean the collection will appeal most to readers already enchanted by Goss. (Feb.)

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