Kate Bernheimer

• Mar-2002
• / General Fiction
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The Complete Tales of Ketzia Gold is a lavishly poetic novel that draws upon the motifs of traditional German, Russian and Yiddish folklore and fairy stories to recount the visionary obsessions of a passionate young woman. The narrative moves freely ...

• Sep-2006
• / Fantasy
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Obsessive, prudish, and cold, Merry Gold lives in denial of her own condition. This seamstress -- the eldest and meanest of the three Gold sisters -- possesses a tarnished past and faces a bleak and lonely future. Guilty about her destructive desires...

• Feb-2008
• / Fantasy
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Once there was a girl who lived in a castle. The castle was inside a museum. When children visited, they'd press against the glass globe in which the castle sat, to glimpse the tiny girl. But when they went home, the girl was lonely. Then one day, sh...

• Apr-2010
• / Fantasy
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New edition (revised and expanded) available 8/13/02.Fairy tales are one of the most enduring forms of literature, their plots retold and characters reimagined for centuries. In this elegant and thought-provoking collection of original essays, Kate B...

• Sep-2010
• / General Fiction
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An imaginative, hauntingly poetic collection of contemporary fables that redefine the fairy tale for the modern woman. In Kate Bernheimer’s familiar and spare -- yet wondrous -- world, an exotic dancer builds her own cage, a wife tends a secret b...

• Mar-2011
• / General Fiction
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Normal0falsefalsefalseMicrosoftInternetExplorer4As a child, Lucy dreams of talking fairies and lives contentedly in the wooded suburbs of Boston; she grows up to be a successful animator of fairy-tale films. Or does she? She claims at moments to be a...

• Apr-2012
• / Science Fiction / Fantasy
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When a wonderful new book arrives at the library, at first it is loved by all, checked out constantly, and rarely spends a night on the library shelf. But over time it grows old and worn, and the children lose interest in its story. The book is sent ...

• Sep-2013
• / General Fiction
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Young fans of the Disney movie Tangled will especially love this hair-raising story. What happens when one little girl refuses to brush her long, beautiful hair? Well, one day a mouse comes to live in a particularly tangled lock. Soon after, more mic...

• Sep-2013
• / Fantasy
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Fifty leading writers retell myths from around the world in this dazzling follow-up to the bestselling "My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me." Icarus flies once more. Aztec jaguar gods again stalk the earth. An American soldier designs a ...

• Aug-2014
• / Fantasy
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A Time Out New York Best Book of the Year. “[Bernheimer is] one of literature’s foremost champions of the fairy tale.” -- Nylon Elegant and brutal, the stories in Kate Bernheimer’s latest collection occupy a heightened landscape, where the...

• Jun-2015
• / Fantasy
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The tenth-anniversary Emerald Issue contains new stories, poems, essays, and artwork inspired by the themes of "emeralds" and "Oz." The sheer volume of responses to the first issue of Fairy Tale Review shows that fairy tales continue to be one of the...

• Jun-2015
• / Fantasy
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The tenth-anniversary Emerald Issue contains new stories, poems, essays, and artwork inspired by the themes of "emeralds" and "Oz." The sheer volume of responses to the first issue of Fairy Tale Review shows that fairy tales continue to be one of the...

• Jun-2015
• / Fantasy
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The tenth-anniversary Emerald Issue contains new stories, poems, essays, and artwork inspired by the themes of "emeralds" and "Oz." The sheer volume of responses to the first issue of Fairy Tale Review shows that fairy tales continue to be one of the...

• Jun-2015
• / Fantasy
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The fourth issue of Fairy Tale Review, The White Issue features original fiction and poetry with fairy tale aesthetics. "All great novels are great fairy tales," wrote Vladimir Nabokov many years ago, and Fairy Tale Review continues to believe that a...

• Nov-2017
• / Fantasy
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The Translucent Issue is a break from tradition. In some ways, colors are an easier, more obvious entry point into the world of fairy tales. It is not transparent, and thus never explicit on the page -- the Brothers Grimm rarely editorialized -- but ...