spoltz
1/20/2022
This book contains four short stories and the titular novella. They are all fairy tales. The short stories are more or less traditional, the Djinn story has a modern setting. I liked a couple of the short stories but felt the others were meh. For the most part, the prose is terrific, which I've come to expect after reading (many years ago) her Booker Prize winning "Possession" and the short "Matisse Stories". Some of the stories, though, just didn't work. This book won the 1998 Mythopoeic Award.
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