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A wild swan : and other tales, Michael Cunningham

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Fairy tales for our times from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Hours.A poisoned apple and a monkey's paw with the power to change fate; a girl whose extraordinarily long hair causes catastrophe; a man with one human arm and one swan's wing; and a house deep in the forest, constructed of gumdrops and gingerbread, vanilla frosting and boiled sugar. In A Wild Swan and Other Tales, the people and the talismans of lands far, far away--the mythic figures of our childhoods and the source of so much of our wonder--are transformed by Michael Cunningham into stories of sublime revelation. Here are the moments that our fairy tales forgot or deliberately concealed: the years after a spell is broken, the rapturous instant of a miracle unexpectedly realized, or the fate of a prince only half cured of a curse. The Beast stands ahead of you in line at the convenience store, buying smokes and a Slim Jim, his devouring smile aimed at the cashier. A malformed little man with a knack for minor acts of wizardry goes to disastrous lengths to procure a child. A loutish and lazy Jack prefers living in his mother's basement to getting a job, until the day he trades a cow for a handful of magic beans. Reimagined by one of the most gifted storytellers of his generation, our bedtime stories have never been this dark, this perverse, or this true.Includes music composed by Billy Hough and the Garagedogs especially for "A Wild Swan."
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eng
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Unabridged.
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1 online resource
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"Includes music composed by Billy Hough and the Garagedogs especially for A Wild Swan"--Container
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9781427262226
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A wild swan : and other tales
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A wild swan
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and other tales
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Michael Cunningham
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Author
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Language
eng
Summary
Fairy tales for our times from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Hours.A poisoned apple and a monkey's paw with the power to change fate; a girl whose extraordinarily long hair causes catastrophe; a man with one human arm and one swan's wing; and a house deep in the forest, constructed of gumdrops and gingerbread, vanilla frosting and boiled sugar. In A Wild Swan and Other Tales, the people and the talismans of lands far, far away--the mythic figures of our childhoods and the source of so much of our wonder--are transformed by Michael Cunningham into stories of sublime revelation. Here are the moments that our fairy tales forgot or deliberately concealed: the years after a spell is broken, the rapturous instant of a miracle unexpectedly realized, or the fate of a prince only half cured of a curse. The Beast stands ahead of you in line at the convenience store, buying smokes and a Slim Jim, his devouring smile aimed at the cashier. A malformed little man with a knack for minor acts of wizardry goes to disastrous lengths to procure a child. A loutish and lazy Jack prefers living in his mother's basement to getting a job, until the day he trades a cow for a handful of magic beans. Reimagined by one of the most gifted storytellers of his generation, our bedtime stories have never been this dark, this perverse, or this true.Includes music composed by Billy Hough and the Garagedogs especially for "A Wild Swan."
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TEFOD
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1952-
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Cunningham, Michael
Dewey number
813/.54
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not applicable
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not applicable
LC call number
PS3553.U484
LC item number
A6 2015ab
Literary text for sound recordings
fiction
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Read by Lili Taylor and Billy Hough
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  • Taylor, Lili
  • Hough, Billy
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Short stories
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adult
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not applicable
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A wild swan : and other tales, Michael Cunningham
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"Includes music composed by Billy Hough and the Garagedogs especially for A Wild Swan"--Container
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unknown
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digital storage
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online resource
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  • cr
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rdacarrier
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not applicable
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unknown
Content category
spoken word
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  • spw
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rdacontent
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Edition
Unabridged.
Extent
1 online resource
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unknown
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online
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May be limited to subscribing institutions
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not applicable
Isbn
9781427262226
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not applicable
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unknown
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unknown
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computer
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rdamedia
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  • c
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877e8129-d213-431e-9fc0-dcaaa8d19f6e
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not applicable
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unknown
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sound
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digital recording
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  • other
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other
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  • (OCoLC)ocn928887041
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  • (OCoLC)928887041
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not applicable
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not applicable
Label
A wild swan : and other tales, Michael Cunningham
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Publication
Note
"Includes music composed by Billy Hough and the Garagedogs especially for A Wild Swan"--Container
Antecedent source
unknown
Capture and storage technique
digital storage
Carrier category
online resource
Carrier category code
  • cr
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Color
not applicable
Configuration of playback channels
unknown
Content category
spoken word
Content type code
  • spw
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Dimensions
  • not applicable
  • unknown
Edition
Unabridged.
Extent
1 online resource
File format
unknown
Form of item
online
Governing access note
May be limited to subscribing institutions
Groove width / pitch
not applicable
Isbn
9781427262226
Kind of cutting
not applicable
Kind of disc cylinder or tape
not applicable
Kind of material
unknown
Level of compression
unknown
Media category
computer
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • c
http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
877e8129-d213-431e-9fc0-dcaaa8d19f6e
Quality assurance targets
not applicable
Reformatting quality
unknown
Sound
sound
Special playback characteristics
digital recording
Specific material designation
  • other
  • remote
Speed
other
System control number
  • (OCoLC)ocn928887041
  • (Sirsi) o928887041
  • (OCoLC)928887041
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not applicable
Tape width
not applicable

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