A WILD SWAN: AND OTHER TALES
Book ID/图书代码： 02330014B73437
English Summary/英文概要： Fairy tales for our times from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Hours
A 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 deep in the forest, constructed of gumdrops and gingerbread, vanilla frosting and boiled sugar. In A Wild Swan and Other Tales, 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.
Here 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. The Beast stands ahead of you in line at the convenience store, buying smokes and a Slim Jim, his devouring smile aimed at the cashier. A malformed little man with a knack for minor acts of wizardry goes to disastrous lengths to procure a child. A loutish and lazy Jack prefers living in his mother’s basement to getting a job, until the day he trades a cow for a handful of magic beans.
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.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 普利策获奖作家所讲述的我们这个时代的童话故事。
被赋予能改变命运的，一只毒苹果和一只猴爪；一个长着奇长头发的少女会带来一场灾难；一个携带着人类武器的男人和一个天鹅的翅膀；深林中的一座由许多橡皮软糖和姜饼，香草糖霜和糖浆建成的房子。在这本童话故事里，人们和这些乐土里我们非常遥远，我们童年时期的神秘故事人物，和我们脑海中那些迸发出的奇思妙想，在这里都会在迈克尔•坎宁安的笔下得到升华…… (Sandy)
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About the Author/作者介绍： 迈克尔·坎宁安生于1952年，因其1989年的处女作《末世之家》蜚声美国文坛，《时时刻刻》是其第三本小说。和他前两本作品不同的是，《时时刻刻》竟然是关于英国著名意识流小说作家弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫及其小说代表作《达洛维夫人》（亦作《达洛维太太》）的一本实验性小说。虽然伍尔夫夫人在现代文坛上的地位已经毋庸置疑，但其以杂乱无序的思维活动为线索的创作理念，即使在今天看来，仍然十分难以理解，无论在国外，还是在中国，都无法为大多数读者所接受。坎宁安身为一个美国作家，采用这样一个选题，无疑是个大胆的创新之举。Michael Cunningham is 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 By Nightfall, as well as Land’s End: A Walk in Provincetown. He lives in New York.
Yuko Shimizu is a Japanese illustrator based in New York, whose work has been featured in Time, Newsweek, The New York Times, and The New Yorker. Her first self-titled monograph was released from Gestalten in 2011; her first children’s book illustrations appeared in Barbed Wire Baseball, written by Marissa Moss. Shimizu teaches illustration at the School of Visual Arts.
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