Black Swan, White Raven

English

ISBN: 0809572540

EAN: 9780809572540

Category: Fiction / Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology/Fiction / Fantasy / General/

Publisher: Prime

Release Date: 03/01/2008

Synopsis: A stellar assymbly of many of todays most creative and accomplished storytellers has gathered around the tribal fire to embroider well-worn yarns with new golden thread. Black Swan, White Raven revisits the tales that charmed, enthralled, and terrified us in our early youth - carrying us aloft into the healthy, beating heart of cherished myth to tell once again the stories of Rumpelstiltskins and sleeping beauties, only this time from an edgy, provocative and distinctly adult perspective. The themes and archetypes of our beloved childhood fiction are reexamined in a darker light by 21 superb teller of tales who deftly uncover the ironic, the outrageous, the enigmatic and the erotic at the core of the worlds best-known fables, while revealing the sobering truths and lies behind happily ever after.

Black Swan, White Raven

Illustrated: No

Format: Paperback

Height: 0.5 inches

Width: 5.25 inches

Length: 8.25 inches

Weight: 10.41 oz

Pages: 368