Name: Fly Away Home von Dame Marina Warner
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Fly Away Home Zusammenfassung

Fly Away Home Dame Marina Warner

Long-listed for the 2016 Edge Hill Short Story Prize

Fly Away Home is Marina Warner's third - and eagerly-awaited - collection of short stories. Inspired by fairy tales, legends, and mythology, this timeless selection explores the themes of love and war - in families, and between generations.

In 'Melusine' a gorgeous mermaid encounters disaster in love and visits her aunt, Morgan le Fay, to pour out her woes ; in 'Breadcrumbs' a hospital patient overhears a night nurse recounting an extraordinary tale of family torn apart under terrifying circumstances. 'Out of the Burning House' introduces an elderly actor recalling an unusual case of heartbreak at the hands of a TV personality; in 'The Difference in the Dose' a young mother becomes increasingly anxious about the rift between herself and her adoptive mother. And in 'Letter to an Unknown Soldier' a thirteen year-old girl writes a heartrending second letter to an older brother away at war, having had no reply to her first...

Like her award-winning novels, Marina Warner's stories conjure up mysteries and wonders in a physical world, treading a delicate, magical line between the natural and the supernatural, between openness and fear. An elegant mix of the poignant, the caustic, and the bizarre, Fly Away Home will be treasured by fans and new readers alike.

Fly Away Home Bewertungen

Warner weaves a world of myths, mermaids and male monsters, but the best stories here explore less familiar themes.

-- Suzi Feay * The Guardian *

With their unique blend of ancient myth and contemporary concerns, Warner's stories are often dark, always gripping, with unexpected flashes of humour and clashes of the real and the supernatural. The legendary Melusine is transformed into an iPhone-wielding, sassy mermaid in a parable on desire and identity. When the relationship between a young dancer and her maverick patron takes a sinister turn, the girl escapes into an alternative world through the chinoiserie pattern on her curtains. Questions of gender and feminism, never far from the surface, are explored in a fresh manner. Warner's writing is at its strongest when it eschews abstraction in favour of the physical - descriptions of human bodies, shimmering underwater creatures, miniature charms with talismanic powers. These are darkly glittering fairytales for our times.

-- Juanita Coulson * The Lady *

Dame Marina Warner's non-fiction is deeply concerned with myths, legends and fairytales. In this collection of magical, haunting short stories, ordinary situations are infused with strangeness, and the nursery-rhyme title suggests a common theme of loss and longing. In Out of the Burning House, an elderly actor in a care home wonders what he would save from a burning house: your house is on fire, you can't fly away home''. He's dwelling on his sexually confused teenage years, his passion for a TV star named Lesley Peake, and a first lesson in betrayal. Letter to an Unknown Soldier is a heartrending scrap of a story; a young girl is writing to her big brother away at war, when he hasn't replied to the last one. And in Ladybird, Ladybird, a young woman who is trying to get pregnant has a weird encounter with a dress in a charity shop. Delicate and graceful.

-- Kate Saunders * The Times *

Five stars. In this lovely collection of short stories full of wit and fantasy, Marina Warner show her ventriloquial gifts as a writer. Some read like fairy tales, others like literary short stories.

-- Brandon Robshaw * Independent on Sunday *

Über Dame Marina Warner

Dame Marina Warner is a British novelist, short story writer, historian and mythographer. She is known for her many non-fiction books relating to feminism and myth. She has written for many publications over the years, including The London Review of Books, the New Statesman, Sunday Times, The Telegraph and Vogue.

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Sku

GOR007271957

ISBN 13

9781784630386

ISBN 10

1784630381

Titel

Fly Away Home Dame Marina Warner

Autor

Dame Marina Warner

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Gebraucht - Sehr Gut

Bindung

Broschiert

Verlag

Salt Publishing

Datum

20151001

Anzahl der Seiten

240

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Long-listed for Edge Hill Prize for the Short Story 2016 (UK)

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