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Kissing the Witch
- Old Tales in New Skins
- Narrated by: Maggie Mash
- Length: 4 hrs and 30 mins
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Summary
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.
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Critic reviews
"Sophisticated, provocative, and bracing. " ( The New York Times Book Review)
"A masterful, gorgeous, and wickedly well written book." (Francesca Lia Block, author of Dangerous Angels: The Weetzie Bat Books)
"These tales are revolutionary." ( The San Francisco Examiner & Chronicle)
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- Anonymous User
- 03-10-24
irritating
none of the retold fairy tales (but one so far) comes to conclusion, it just sidetracked to another one and another one, it's really annoying and frustrating
I'm still trying to finish it in hope it's going to provide some closures and answers but it's getting more irritating with every chapter, considering abandoning it all together...
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
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- Yahli Rot
- 20-05-24
Wow
This was really good. I expected some retelling, short stories, maybe gender reverses or something like that. Did not expect a total rewrite of certain stories, or the continuation, giving us the origin stories only after we know what they became. Beautiful idea and great execution
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