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Ruby Slippers, Golden Tears - Ellen Datlow, Terri Windling


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Ruby Slippers, Golden Tears - Ellen Datlow, Terri Windling

 
Description: ISBN 0809571501 / Genre: Sci-Fi / Fantasy / A collection of adult fairy tales highlights such subjects as rich witches who live in trendy ... more
Ruby Slippers, Golden Tears - Ellen Datlow, Terri Windling ... resorts and terrible beasts that reside within handsome bodies.

Newest Review: ... Datlow and Terri Windling, there are works harvested from such diverse authors as Gahan Wilson, Susan Palwick, Tanith Lee, ... more

 ... Garry Kilworth, Neil Gaiman, and Jane Yolen. Each offering is prefaced by a brief introduction of the author and mention of the old fairy tale around which they have chosen to spin new gold. No two are quite alike and their origins can be found in tales from China, Russia, North America, and Europe. In the tale, SUMMER WIND, we are shown what life was like behind the impenetrable wall of thorns that surrounded the legendary Sleeping Beauty. We do not find her in peaceful repose, but in a wakeful and prolonged solitude ...more

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Crowned Review Ruby Slippers, Golden Tears - Ellen Datlow, Terri Windling: Reflections in a Magical Mirror (772 words)
by - written on 14/12/01 (Very useful, 66 readings)
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Like gleaming drops of royal blood upon an innocent coverlet of snow, this work startles the reader and leaves you pondering the deeper meanings and mysteries hidden in the words before you. Some of the tales seem as natural, beautiful, and dangerous as a sudden storm; One could almost believe they were found fully grown somewhere between the wild blackberries and the sweet red rose. Others have been offered up upon a bloody altar as gruesome sacrifice and a savage leering reminder that some ancient rituals took place in secret, under a moonless sky. Here you will find humor, tragedy, love, lust, kindness, violence, madness, innocence, wisdom, life and death woven into ...  Read the complete review

 

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