The Wood Wife (Fairy Tales)
Journalist and ex-poet Maggie Black has inherited the estate of Pulitzer  Prize-winning poet Davis Cooper, with whom she corresponded for years, but never  met. Maggie is a cosmopolitan woman of the West Coast and Europe, and a child of  the Appalachian mountains; she has no interest in the desert. She has an  ex-husband she still loves in L.A. And Davis Cooper drowned in the Arizona  desert, the victim of a mysterious murder. Maggie has many reasons to stay away.  Yet she moves to Cooper's desert home, seeking to unravel the secrets of Cooper  and his late lover, the mad painter Anna Naverra. But these, Maggie will  discover, are not the desert's only mysteries. Ancient powers are  stirring--enigmatic and dangerous spirits that would use humans for their own  purposes.Terri Windling is the most important and influential fantasy editor of the 1980s  and 1990s: Her many accomplishments include editing (and often discovering) a  pantheon of fantasy gods--Steven Brust, Emma Bull, Charles de Lint, Jane Yolen,  and many more. She edits, with Ellen Datlow, the indispensible annualYear's  Best Fantasy and Horrorand the acclaimed revisionist fairy-tale anthology  series that began withSnow White, Blood Red. She has won the World  Fantasy Award five times. So it's not too surprising that her first novel,The Wood Wife, is well written, fascinating, insightful, and the winner  of the 1997 Mythopoeic Award for Best Novel.--Cynthia Ward--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.