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The Witch
  • Published: 1 March 2016
  • ISBN: 9780147516985
  • Imprint: Plume
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 272
  • RRP: $36.00

The Witch

And Other Tales Re-told

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25 Sept 2014
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1 Mar 2016
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A National Book Award finalist and bestselling author, Jean Thompson's new collection of "bewitching improvisations on fairy tales" are "spellbinding" (Booklist, starred review).

National Book Award finalist and New York Times bestselling author Jean Thompson’s new collection of “bewitching improvisations on fairy tales” are “spellbinding” (Booklist, starred review).

Capturing the magic and horror in everyday life, The Witch and Other Tales Re-told revisits beloved fables that represent our deepest, most primeval fears and satisfy our longings for good to triumph over evil (preferably in the most gruesome way possible). From the wolf in “Little Red Riding Hood” to the beauty asleep in her castle, The Witch and Other Tales Re-told triumphantly brings the fairy tale into the modern age.
  • Published: 1 March 2016
  • ISBN: 9780147516985
  • Imprint: Plume
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 272
  • RRP: $36.00
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Praise for The Witch

"Jean Thompson demonstrates once again that she's a modern-day Katherine Mansfield, capturing the culture with trenchant wit....Thompson is a wizard of the short story, and these tales are magical--and diabolical." - Julia Keller, NPR's Best Books of 2014

"In this spooky, enthralling, and morally complex collection, National Book Award finalist Thompson...shows evil, wonder, and majesty...Thompson skillfully infuses our banal world of technology, reality TV, and pop psychology with genuine horror....as eerie as anything you'll find in the Brothers Grimm." - Publishers Weekly

"[A] series of exuberantly imaginative riffs on traditional folk and fairy tales...they offer all the chills and suspense embedded in those ancient pinnacles, gorges and deep, dark woods....[a] spirited, provocative collection." - Valerie Miner, San Francisco Chronicle

"[An] arresting collection. Thompson transforms old tales, rendering them at once familiar and surprising." - Rob Cline, The Iowa Gazette