Kissing the Witch: Old Tales in New Skins by Emma Donoghue
Kissing the Witch: Old Tales in New Skins by Emma Donoghue
English | July 4, 2013 | ASIN: B00DRCBUP2 | 228 pages | EPUB | 1.26 MB
English | July 4, 2013 | ASIN: B00DRCBUP2 | 228 pages | EPUB | 1.26 MB
Thirteen tales are unspun from the deeply familiar, and woven anew into a collection of fairy tales that wind back through time. Emma Donoghue reveals heroines young and old in unexpected alliances - sometimes treacherous, sometimes erotic, but always courageous.
Told with luminous voices that shimmer with sensuality and truth, these age-old characters shed their antiquated cloaks to travel a seductive new landscape, radiantly transformed. Cinderella forsakes the handsome prince and runs off with the fairy godmother; Beauty discovers the Beast behind the mask is not so very different from the face she sees in the mirror; Snow White is awakened from slumber by the bittersweet fruit of an unnamed desire.