Seven modern fairytales from Pulitzer Prize finalist Kelly Link,featuring illustrations by award-winning artist Shaun Tan.
Leaving behind the enchanted castles,deep,dark woods and gingerbread cottages of fairytales for airport waiting rooms,alien planets and a cannabis farm run by a team of hospitable cats,White Cat,Black Dog offers a fresh take on the stories that you thought you knew. Here you'll find stoner students,failing actors and stranded professors questing for love,revenge or even just a sense of purpose. Poised on the edges between magic,modernity and mundanity,White Cat,Black Dog will delight,beguile,occasionally horrify,and remind you once again of why Kelly Link is incomparable in the realm of short fiction.
Don't stray from the path! Not without Kelly Link as your guide.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCISBN: 9781804548400Number of pages: 272Dimensions: 229 x 148 mm
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'A billionaire is a king,a housesitting gig is a portal,and fans of Station Eleven,speculative fiction or simply anyone who needs a brief escape from the hard,cold world will find the prose here magically transporting. Under Link's hand,the stories promise to be wild,wicked and utterly unforgettable.'- Alison Stine,Salon
'Kelly Link is the master of the modern fairytale. This collection of short stories is deceptively easy to read - you'll be turning the pages of strange events quickly,but the stories and their strange events are liable to linger in your mind.'- Today
'Link's most direct engagement with the fairytales and folk legends that have always inspired her work... as intense,absorbing and weird as the best dreams'- Guardian
'MacArthur Genius Grant fellow Kelly Link's latest collection reworks seven fairy tales... in fantastic modern contexts. Hansel and Gretel must escape a very different sort of hunger on a planet of vampires; a house-sitting gig is the setting for a portal fantasy; and the white cat of the title turns out to run a weed dispensary. There are layovers in airports (familiar) and wealthy fathers sending sons on absurd quests - also familiar,but in a much more bone-deep way in the retellings of such symbolic stories'- LitHub
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