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A Wild Swan: And Other Tales by Michael Cunningham is a science book available to read on EtoBox.

What is A Wild Swan: And Other Tales about?

Fairy tales for our times from the Pulitzer Prize — winning author of The Hours. A poisoned apple and a monkey's paw with the power to change fate; a girl whose extraordinarily long hair causes catastrophe; a man with one human arm and one swan's wing; and a house deep in the forest, constructed of gumdrops and gingerbread, vanilla frosting and boiled sugar. In A Wild Swan and Other Tales, the people and the talismans of lands far, far away — the mythic figures of our childhoods and the source of so much of our wonder — are transformed by Michael Cunningham into stories of sublime revelation. Here are the moments that our fairy tales forgot or deliberately concealed: the years after a spell is broken, the rapturous instant of a miracle unexpectedly realized, or the fate of a prince only half cured of a curse. The Beast stands ahead of you in line at the convenience store, buying smokes and a Slim Jim, his devouring smile aimed at the cashier. A malformed little man with a knack for minor acts of wizardry goes to disastrous lengths to procure a child. A loutish and lazy Jack prefers living in his mother's basement to getting a job, until the day he trades a cow for a handful of magi

Who reads A Wild Swan: And Other Tales?

Author

Michael Cunningham

Publisher

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Published

2015

Language

EN

Category

science

Subjects

Fiction

Rating

3.69 / 5 (2,580 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13