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Enchanting tales of love, death, and otherworldliness.
If you're drawn to the eclectic and fantastical, "Dreadful Young Ladies and Other Stories" could intrigue you. Kelly Barnhill weaves reality with the supernatural in a way that asks you to question what you know about love, grief, and the power of the unseen. This collection is for readers who appreciate a touch of whimsy and depth intertwined in their literature.
- Minnesota Book Award Nominee for Genre Fiction (2019)
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ISBN: 9781616209247
Authors:
Kelly Barnhill
Publisher: Algonquin Books
Date of Publication: 2019-03-12
Format: Paperback
Goodreads rating: 3.68
(rated by 2395 readers)
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An exquisite collection of haunting, magical stories from Newbery Medalist Kelly Barnhill. When Mrs. Sorensen’s husband dies, she rekindles a long-dormant love with an unsuitable mate in “Mrs. Sorensen and the Sasquatch.” In “Open the Door and the Light Pours Through,” a young man wrestles with grief and his sexuality in an exchange of letters with his faraway beloved. “Dreadful Young Ladies” demonstrates the strength and power—known and unknown—of the imagination. In “Notes on the Untimely Death of Ronia Drake,” a witch is haunted by the deadly repercussions of a spell. “The Insect and the Astronomer” upends expectations about good and bad, knowledge and ignorance, love and longing. The World Fantasy Award–winning novella “The Unlicensed Magician” introduces the secret magical life of an invisible girl once left for dead—with thematic echoes of Barnhill’s Newbery Medal–winning novel, The Girl Who Drank the Moon. With bold, reality-bending invention underscored by richly illuminated universal themes of love, death, jealousy, and hope, the stories in Dreadful Young Ladies show why its author has been hailed as “a fantasist on the order of Neil Gaiman” (Minneapolis Star Tribune). This collection cements Barnhill’s place as one of the wittiest, most vital and compelling voices
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Enchanting tales of love, death, and otherworldliness.
If you're drawn to the eclectic and fantastical, "Dreadful Young Ladies and Other Stories" could intrigue you. Kelly Barnhill weaves reality with the supernatural in a way that asks you to question what you know about love, grief, and the power of the unseen. This collection is for readers who appreciate a touch of whimsy and depth intertwined in their literature.
- Minnesota Book Award Nominee for Genre Fiction (2019)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.
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