num_pages: 304
description: [Yolen is] the Aesop of the twentieth centuryThe New York TimesFantasy legend Jane Yolen (The Emerald Circus The Devils Arithmetic) delights with these effortlessly wide-ranging transformed fairy tales. Yolen fractures the classics to reveal their crystalline secrets holding them to the light and presenting them entirely transformed from a spinner of straw as a money-changer and to the big bad wolf retiring to a nursing home. Rediscover the fables you once knew rewritten and refined for the world we now live in.
language: English
title: How to Fracture a Fairy Tale
publisher: Tachyon Publications