Read Anywhere and on Any Device!

Subscribe to Read | $0.00

Join today and start reading your favorite books for Free!

Create Free Account

Quick and Easy Sign Up!

It takes less then 1 minute to sign up, then you can enjoy Unlimited eBooks.

Sign Up Browse

Read Anywhere and on Any Device!

  • Download on iOS
  • Download on Android
  • Download on iOS

The Girl with No Hands and Other Tales

Angela Slatter
4.11/5 (272 ratings)
Read Now Download Now
"In this collection of 16 previously published and new stories, Slatter presents twisted, fractured, illuminating fairy tales and dark fantasies that beguile in their elegant simplicity. Many of the stories are reiterations of classic fairy tales from all over the world. But by retelling the tales in a more intimate manner, Slatter illuminates the symbiotic relationship between pleasure and pain. The sexually candid "Bluebeard" is an empowering tale of a whore and her daughter who best a monster. The wholly original "The Living Book" personifies the intimate act of reading, while "Skin" reworks the Gaelic legend of the selkie into a tale of revenge and redemption from the seal woman's perspective. An afterword elucidates the source material and intent behind each tale. Dark and sinister, these shorts place strong, empathetic female protagonists into harrowing, horrifying, or humble circumstances and see them triumph."
-Publishers Weekly
Format:
Pages:
205 pages
Publication:
2010
Publisher:
Ticonderoga Publications
Edition:
1, 1st, First Edition
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
0980628881
ISBN13:
9780980628883
kindle Asin:
B005CI67IY

The Girl with No Hands and Other Tales

Angela Slatter
4.11/5 (272 ratings)
Read Download
"In this collection of 16 previously published and new stories, Slatter presents twisted, fractured, illuminating fairy tales and dark fantasies that beguile in their elegant simplicity. Many of the stories are reiterations of classic fairy tales from all over the world. But by retelling the tales in a more intimate manner, Slatter illuminates the symbiotic relationship between pleasure and pain. The sexually candid "Bluebeard" is an empowering tale of a whore and her daughter who best a monster. The wholly original "The Living Book" personifies the intimate act of reading, while "Skin" reworks the Gaelic legend of the selkie into a tale of revenge and redemption from the seal woman's perspective. An afterword elucidates the source material and intent behind each tale. Dark and sinister, these shorts place strong, empathetic female protagonists into harrowing, horrifying, or humble circumstances and see them triumph."
-Publishers Weekly
Format:
Pages:
205 pages
Publication:
2010
Publisher:
Ticonderoga Publications
Edition:
1, 1st, First Edition
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
0980628881
ISBN13:
9780980628883
kindle Asin:
B005CI67IY

More Books

The Path of Thorns

A.G. Slatter

All the Murmuring Bones

A.G. Slatter

The Briar Book of the Dead

A.G. Slatter

The Crimson Road

A.G. Slatter

Fyneshade

Kate Griffin

Made Things (Made Things, #1)

Adrian Tchaikovsky

Summerwater

Sarah Moss

The Harpy

Megan Hunter

Odd Spirits (The Summoner's Circle, #0.5)

S.T. Gibson

At the Mouth of the River of Bees: Stories

Kij Johnson

What the Dead Know (Into Shadow, #4)

Nghi Vo

Persephone (Into Shadow, #2)

Lev Grossman