Name: The Complete Tales of Merry Gold
Author: Kate Bernheimer
ISBN: 9781573661317

Published:

Sep-2006
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Main Genre:

Fantasy
Pages:

168
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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 and longing for innocence, her inner turmoil and explosive imagination belie a disarming honesty.

A sequel to The Complete Tales of Ketzia Gold, the novel follows Merry from her suburban childhood through design school and a whirlwind of lovers, and into a desolate adulthood. Beginning with a toy seal and ending with mushrooms, this fairy tale set in modern times creeps through cruelty and violence to its inevitable end.

Reminiscent of a miniature, fragile ice sculpture, The Complete Tales of Merry Gold glistens with hard-hearted bliss. Kate Bernheimer has once again delved into the internal anguish of the Gold family to extract a magical, carefully stitched tale of strange and happy fear.