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A feast of sorrows stories

This first U.S. collection of Angela Slatter's features twelve of the World Fantasy and British Fantasy Award-winning Australian author's finest, darkest fairy tales, and adds two new novellas to her marvelous cauldron of fiction. Stories peopled by women and girls -- fearless, frightened,...

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Main Author: Slatter, Angela.
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: Germantown, MD : Prime Books, 2016.
Subjects:
Women > Fiction.
Short stories.
Horror fiction.
Fantasy fiction.
Summary: This first U.S. collection of Angela Slatter's features twelve of the World Fantasy and British Fantasy Award-winning Australian author's finest, darkest fairy tales, and adds two new novellas to her marvelous cauldron of fiction. Stories peopled by women and girls -- fearless, frightened, brave, bold, frail, and fantastical -- who take the paths less traveled by, accept (and offer) poisoned apples, and embrace transformation in all its forms."--Amazon.com
Item Description: formerly titled 'A feast of shadows'
Physical Description: 303 p.
ISBN: 9781607014744
1607014742
Author Notes: Angela Slatter was born in 1967 in Australia. She is a graduate of Clarion South 2009 and the Tin House Summer Writers Workshop 2006. She has a Masters (Research) in Creative Writing. In 2013 she was awarded one of the inaugural Queensland Writers Fellowships. In 2010, she published two short story collections: Sourdough & Other Stories with Tartarus Press (UK) and The Girl with No Hands & Other Tales. Her novella St Dymphna's School for Poison Girls won an Aurealis Award in 2014 in the Fantasy Short Story category. In 2015 she won a World Fantasy Award in the best collection category with her title The Bitterwood Bible and Other Recountings. She co-authored two books with Lisa L. Hannett, Midnight and Moonshine and The Female Factory. Her novella Sorrow and Such won the 2016 Ditmar Awards for Best Novella or Novelette.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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