"Inventive, outlandish, and tender fairy tales from a bestselling author The 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 cat or a second-hand coat--with an intensity that made them otherworldly. In Daydreams of Angels, O'Neill's first collection of short stories, she gives ...
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"Inventive, outlandish, and tender fairy tales from a bestselling author The 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 cat or a second-hand coat--with an intensity that made them otherworldly. In Daydreams of Angels, O'Neill's first collection of short stories, she gives free reign to her imaginative gifts. In "The Ugly Ducklings," generations of Nureyev clones live out their lives in a grand Soviet experiment. In "Dear Piglet," a teenaged cult follower writes a letter to explain the motivation behind her crime. And in another tale, a grandmother reveals where babies come from: the beach, where young mothers-to-be hunt for infants in the surf. Each of these beguiling stories twists the beloved narratives of childhood--fairy tales, storybooks, Bible stories--to uncover the deepest truths of family life"--
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Add this copy of Daydreams of Angels: Stories to cart. $23.33, good condition, Sold by Dream Books Co. rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Denver, CO, UNITED STATES, published 2015 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
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Good. Gently used with minimal wear on the corners and cover. A few pages may contain light highlighting or writing but the text remains fully legible. Dust jacket may be missing and supplemental materials like CDs or codes may not be included. Could have library markings. Ships promptly!
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New in new dust jacket. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 368 p. Audience: General/trade. New...Shrink Wrapped...All books Ship NEXT DAY from Wize Books (m-f) excluding holidays, when ordered before 1 PM PST with tracking and guarantee.
Add this copy of Daydreams of Angels to cart. $51.50, very good condition, Sold by Bibliodditiques rated 2.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Waterloo, ON, CANADA, published 2015 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
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Very Good + in very good jacket. Stories. Author's first collection of short stories. Tight binding. No chips, tears, creases or written inscriptions. Dust jacket is NOT price-clipped. Jacket flaps appear to be glued to endpapers. Remainder mark on top edge of text block. Light rippling on jacket. Size: 8vo (8" to 9"). 356 pp.
