Rags & Bones
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- £3.99
Publisher Description
One of Amazon's Top 10 YA novels for 2013. Featuring stories by Neil Gaiman, Garth Nix and the authors of Beautiful Creatures, Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl, this is a unique and imaginative collection for readers of all ages.
There are some stories that will always be told, tales as timeless as they are gripping.
There are some authors who can tell any story.
In RAGS & BONES, award-winning and bestselling authors retell classic fairytales and twisted tales in the way that only they can. With magic and love, they bring these stories - whether much loved or overlooked - back to life.
Read 'Sleeping Beauty' as only Neil Gaiman can tell it. See 'Rumpelstiltskin' through the eyes of Kami Garcia. And learn of Rudyard Kipling's 'The Man Who Would Be King' from the inimitable Garth Nix.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In this eclectic anthology, Marr (Carnival of Souls) and Pratt (Liar's Blade) bring together 10 other authors, as well as illustrator Charles Vess, to reinterpret and reimagine a dozen classic stories, novels, and fairy tales. The mandate: to "boil those stories down to the rags and bones, and make something new from their fundamental essences." The results derive from both familiar source material, such as Kelley Armstrong's dystopian take on "The Monkey's Paw" and Neil Gaiman's splendid reworking of "Sleeping Beauty," as well as less-remembered, like Margaret Stohl's haunting update of Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto and Pratt's thought-provoking look at Henry James's "The Jolly Corner." Holly Black delivers a seductive update of "Carmilla," while Marr takes on The Awakening. The tales tend toward the dark and Gothic, with happy or comforting endings in short supply, but the range of tones and approaches offers plenty for readers to savor. It's a solid collection that may trigger flashbacks to English class among current and former students alike. Ages 15 up.
