Young woman in a garden
Subtitle: stories
By: Delia Sherman
Edition: First edition.
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9781618730916
Subjects: American Short stories
Work titles: Short stories
Description: "Praise for Delia Sherman's previous books:"Multilayered, compassionate, and thought-provoking."--Kirkus Reviews, starred review"Fantastic in every sense of the word, Sherman's second novel (Through a Brazen Mirror) is a skillfully crafted fairy tale that owes as much to E.T.A. Hoffman as to Charles Perrault. The Porcelain Dove is no dainty vertu but a seductive, sinister bird with razored feathers."--Publishers Week-lyIn her vivid and sly, gentle and wise, long-anticipated first collection, Delia Sherman takes seemingly insignificant moments in the lives of artists or sailors--the light out a window, the two strokes it takes to turn a small boat--and finds the ghosts haunting them, the magic surrounding them. Here are the lives that make up larger histories, here are tricksters and gardeners, faeries and musicians, all glittering and sparkling, finding beauty and hope and always unexpected, a touch of wild magic.Delia Sherman was born in Japan and raised in New York City. Her work has appeared most recently in the anthologies Naked City, Steampunk!, and Queen Victoria's Book of Spells. She is the author of six novels including The Porcelain Dove (a New York Times Notable Book), The Freedom Maze, and Changeling, and has received the Mythopoeic and Norton awards. She lives in New York City. "--

"In her vivid and wise long anticipated first collection, Delia Sherman takes seemingly insignificant moments in the lives of artists or sailors -- the light out a window, the two strokes it takes to turn a small boat -- and finds the ghosts haunting them, the magic surrounding them"--
Table of contents: title: Young woman in a garden --; title: The ghost of Cwmlech Manor --; title: The red piano --; title: The fiddler of Bayou Teche --; title: La Fée Verte --; title: Walpurgis afternoon" --; title: Land's end --; title: The Parwat Ruby --; title: The fairy cony-catcher" --; title: Sacred harp --; title: The printer's daughter --; title: Nanny Peters and the feathery bride --; title: Miss Carstairs and the merman --; title: The maid on the shore.