Cloud & Ashes
Three Winters Tales
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- 6,99 €
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- 6,99 €
Publisher Description
Winner of the Tiptree Award and a Mythopoeic Award finalist, Cloud & Ashes is a slow whirlwind of language, a button box of words, a mythic fable that invites revisitation.
Praise for Cloud & Ashes:
"A rich poetic prose laden with fetching archaisms that's unlike anything else being written today. Brilliant and truly innovative fiction, not to be missed."—The Washington Times
Greer Gilman is the author of Moonwise. A graduate of Wellesley and the University of Cambridge, she lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She likes to quip that she does everything James Joyce ever did, only backward and in high heels.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Metafictional fantasy triptychs.Cloud & Ashes: Three Winter's TalesGreer Gilman. Small Beer, $26 (448p) Almost two decades after the publication of her debut novel, Moonwise, Gilman returns to the fantasy realm of Cloud with a trilogy of interconnected narratives. 2000's Nebula-shortlisted "Jack Daw's Pack" follows an otherworldly traveler as he creates a rich tapestry of myth in the cards he throws down. 2003's "A Crowd of Bone," which won the World Fantasy Award, is a decidedly nonlinear tragedy about child witch Thea, who flees her goddess mother and a foolish love-struck mortal. The novella "Unleaving," the original piece of the trinity, revolves around Thea's daughter, Margaret, who "unravels" the heavens and, in turn, much of the mythos of Cloud. Though the sublimely lyrical Jacobeanesque dialect is challenging, readers who enjoy symbolism and allusion will cherish Gilman's use of diverse folkloric elements to create an unforgettable realm and ideology.
