Magic for Beginners: Stories
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| Rating | : | 4.13 (594 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00L4HCLB4 |
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| Number of Pages | : | 376 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-07-27 |
| Language | : | English |
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The year's best fiction Kelly C. Shaw Kelly Link's fiction is so good it's scary, as her lyrical voice is one of the most unique and singular in literature. Her fantastical stories are inimitable reinventions of familiar genre staples (zombies, ghosts, time travel, fairy tales, and more), filtered through a keen literary eye. The fantasy elements in her stories are always underpinned by a grave reality, be it loss of innocence, coming to grief, or family strife, but not at the expense of a story's humor or levity. Somehow, Link's stories capture both the familiar and the unknown, the horror and the beauty in life. I'm . fun, and whimsical as Dianne Wynne Jones This book is a treat. There's a waning of expectations tied to reading fantasy--you see a recycling of similar tropes, repeated struggles, a reassembling of archetypes thought to be fresh when they're really just trussed up and garnished with quirks. This book is, in every page, surprising, as intricately detailed as Susannah Clarke, as dark and fantastical as Neil Gaiman, and as rich, fun, and whimsical as Dianne Wynne Jones. Of all my short story collections, this one, I think, will be the one I return to the most.. Maureen Tanafon said Spotty, not really my thing overall. I loved 'Pretty Monsters' so I bought this without checking it out thoroughly first. MISTAKE. I'm guessing it was because 'Pretty Monsters' was a YA collection and this one is adult (possibly?), but the new stories in this one were well, I won't outright say they're bad, but there are some I deeply regret reading. I'll go quickly story-by story, rate and explain.'The Faery Handbag' had been in Pretty Monsters as well - I love this one.'The Hortlak' was deeply confusing, but had its moments.'The Cannon' was purely weird, and not in a good way. I found myself coming out of the pleasa