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Elegantly simple fairy tales of strangeness and wonder from a master of the form.
No one has done more for the contemporary fairy tale than Kate Bernheimer. In eight new stories, she leads us into a forest of everyday magic and misfits, where dinosaurs wear pajamas and talking dolls ruin your life. Elegant and brutal, Bernheimer’s latest collection locates the existential loveliness of ideas amidst the topsy-turvy logic of things. This collection renews classic stories with intelligent wonder. Like one of Bernheimer’s girls, whose hands of steel turn to flowers, the reader will marvel.
No one has done more for the contemporary fairy tale than Kate Bernheimer. In eight new stories, she leads us into a forest of everyday magic and misfits, where dinosaurs wear pajamas and talking dolls ruin your life. Elegant and brutal, Bernheimer’s latest collection locates the existential loveliness of ideas amidst the topsy-turvy logic of things. This collection renews classic stories with intelligent wonder. Like one of Bernheimer’s girls, whose hands of steel turn to flowers, the reader will marvel.
Price: $15.95
Pages: 158
Publisher: Coffee House Press
Imprint: Coffee House Press
Publication Date:
05 August 2014
Trim Size: 7.50 X 6.00 in
ISBN: 9781566893473
Format: Paperback
A Time Out New York Best Book of 2014
“Bernheimer presents haunting looks at mothers and daughters, the magic of childhood, and the power of illusion, fantasy, and dreams.” —San Francisco Book Review
“Bernheimer manages to tickle the cerebrum without sacrificing surface pleasures.” —The Star Tribune
“Nine nimble stories confront a spectrum of suffering; loneliness, addiction, poverty, and death lay exposed with open language for all to interpret.” —Entropy
“An impressive array. . . . The way the rules of realism are rewritten makes for a thrilling experience.” —Vol. 1 Brooklyn
“[Bernheimer is] one of literature’s foremost champions of the fairy tale.”—Nylon
“You cannot argue with a fairy tale. It is tautology as art form.” —Slate
“Gobble up these stories as you would a trail of bread crumbs that leads into the dark, magical woods of Kate Bernheimer’s imagination. Here you will be happily lost, sometimes afraid, often amused and always awed.” —Benjamin Percy
“Kate Bernheimer’s beautiful and daring stories do not lead us to familiar places. She miraculously collapses the distinctions between the quotidian and the wondrous, the enchanted and the cursed, and takes us into the dark woods to wander until we too can see each uncanny branch.” —Jenny Offill
“These aren’t fairy tales, they’re signposts for the lost—and strange lands await if you go their way.” —Ben Loory
“Bernheimer presents haunting looks at mothers and daughters, the magic of childhood, and the power of illusion, fantasy, and dreams.” —San Francisco Book Review
“Bernheimer manages to tickle the cerebrum without sacrificing surface pleasures.” —The Star Tribune
“Nine nimble stories confront a spectrum of suffering; loneliness, addiction, poverty, and death lay exposed with open language for all to interpret.” —Entropy
“An impressive array. . . . The way the rules of realism are rewritten makes for a thrilling experience.” —Vol. 1 Brooklyn
“[Bernheimer is] one of literature’s foremost champions of the fairy tale.”—Nylon
“You cannot argue with a fairy tale. It is tautology as art form.” —Slate
“Gobble up these stories as you would a trail of bread crumbs that leads into the dark, magical woods of Kate Bernheimer’s imagination. Here you will be happily lost, sometimes afraid, often amused and always awed.” —Benjamin Percy
“Kate Bernheimer’s beautiful and daring stories do not lead us to familiar places. She miraculously collapses the distinctions between the quotidian and the wondrous, the enchanted and the cursed, and takes us into the dark woods to wander until we too can see each uncanny branch.” —Jenny Offill
“These aren’t fairy tales, they’re signposts for the lost—and strange lands await if you go their way.” —Ben Loory
Kate Bernheimer has been called “one of the living masters of the fairy tale.” She is the author of a novel trilogy and the story collections Horse, Flower, Bird and How a Mother Weaned Her Girl from Fairy Tales and the editor of four anthologies, including the World Fantasy Award winning and bestselling My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me: Forty New Fairy Tales and xo Orpheus: 50 New Myths. She founded and edits the literary journal Fairy Tale Review and lives in Arizona with her husband, the writer Brent Hendricks, and their daughter, Xia.