Daydreams of Angels
Inventive, outlandish, and tender fairy tales from a bestselling authorThe fantastic has always been at the edges of Heather O'Neill's work. In her bestselling novels Lullabies for Little Criminals and The Girl Who Was Saturday Night, she transformed the shabbiest streets of Montreal with her...
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Inventive, outlandish, and tender fairy tales from a bestselling authorThe fantastic has always been at the edges of Heather O'Neill's work. In her bestselling novels Lullabies for Little Criminals and The Girl Who Was Saturday Night, she transformed the shabbiest streets of Montreal with her beautiful, freewheeling metaphors. She described the smallest of things--a stray
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Format: Hardcover
ISBN:
9780374280420 (0374280428)
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages no: 368
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Humor,
Cultural,
Adult Fiction,
Literary Fiction,
Adult,
Fairy Tales,
Magical Realism,
Short Stories,
Canada,
Fiction
Somewhere between three and four stars for this one. This is my first encounter with Heather O'Neill, and I really enjoyed her tidy, evocative prose and the way each of the stories, although set in a fantasy world with a common theme (angels), had its own internal logic. Most were quite funny, but a...
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