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White Cat, Black Dog

By Kelly Link
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White Cat, Black Dog by Kelly Link is a collection of short stories that masterfully blends elements of fantasy, folklore, and the surreal. Each tale reimagines traditional fairy tales and folklore with a unique and contemporary twist. The characters navigate worlds where the boundary between the ordinary and the fantastical blurs, providing readers with an imaginative exploration of the human condition through the lens of the magical and mythical.
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This book may appeal to you if you enjoy enchanting short stories that blend the surreal with the everyday, exploring fantastical worlds full of unexpected twists. The author crafts each tale with a unique blend of magic, humour, and mystery, perfect for readers who love a mix of the whimsical and the uncanny.

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White Cat, Black Dog

Seven reinvented fairy tales that play out with astonishing consequences in the modern world.

Seven reinvented fairy tales from one of today's finest short story writers – MacArthur 'Genius Grant' Fellow Kelly Link, bestselling author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist Get in Trouble.

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2024 LOCUS AWARD WINNER, BEST COLLECTION AND BEST NOVELETTE FOR 'PRINCE HAT UNDERGROUND'

Seven modern fairytales from Pulitzer Prize finalist Kelly Link, featuring illustrations by award-winning artist Shaun Tan.

Leaving behind the enchanted castles, deep, dark woods, and gingerbread cottages of fairytales for airport waiting rooms, alien planets, and a cannabis farm run by a team of hospitable cats, White Cat, Black Dog offers a fresh take on the stories that you thought you knew. Here you’ll find stoner students, failing actors, and stranded professors questing for love, revenge, or even just a sense of purpose. Poised on the edges between magic, modernity, and mundanity, this collection will remind you once again of why Kelly Link is incomparable in the realm of short fiction.

Don’t stray from the path! Not without Kelly Link as your guide.

'Uncanny brilliance' Sunday Times

'An expert illusionist' New Yorker

'Link is a genius' LA Times

'Thrilling... glittering' Spectator

'A short story sorceress' Washington Post

'Joyful... awe-inspiring' Jessamine Chan

'Contains all the good stuff' Bustle

'Magically transporting' Salon

'Wonderfully told' BuzzFeed

Liable to linger in your mind Today

'Enchanting' Publishers Weekly

'Wondrous' Stephen Graham Jones

'This book is sublime' Emma Straub

'Enchanting... unsettling' Kiersten White

'Glorious and bewitching' Clare Beams

'Tales you live inside' Victor Lavalle

'Luminous... surreal' Kate Mascarenhas

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White Cat, Black Dog by Kelly Link has garnered praise for its inventive twists on classic fairy tales, with reviewers highlighting Link's unique ability to blend the ordinary with the surreal, creating stories that linger in the imagination. The collection is celebrated for its wit and dreamlike quality, often compared to the works of Angela Carter for its psychological depth and modern take on timeless myths. Critics note Link's mastery of the short story form, with each tale offering a captivating mix of humour and dark fantasy, making it an enchanting read for fans of speculative fiction.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781804548424

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 09 November 2023

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Head of Zeus -- an AdAstra Book

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 20.0mm

Width: 130.0mm

Height: 196.0mm

Weight: 204g

Pages: 288

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Fantasy Fiction General Fiction Kelly Link Sci-Fi & Fantasy

About the Author

Kelly Link's most recent collection (Get in Trouble; 2014), was a Pulitzer Prize finalist, a national bestseller, and named one of the Best Books of the Year by the Washington Post, NPR, the Chicago Tribune, Time, Slate, and the San Francisco Chronicle. She is the author of three other collections: Stranger Things Happen, Magic for Beginners, and Pretty Monsters. Her short stories have been published in A Public Space, One Story, Tin House, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, The Best American Short Stories, and Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards. She currently lives with her husband and daughter in Northampton, Massachusetts. She was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship (aka Genius Grant) in 2018.

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