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Kissing the Witch

Old Tales in New Skins

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Kissing the Witch

By: Emma Donoghue
Narrated by: Maggie Mash
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About this listen

Thirteen tales are unspun from the deeply familiar and woven anew into a collection of fairy tales that wind back through time.

Emma Donoghue reveals heroines young and old in unexpected alliances--sometimes treacherous, sometimes erotic, but always courageous. Told with luminous voices that shimmer with sensuality and truth, these age-old characters shed their antiquated cloaks to travel a seductive new landscape, radiantly transformed.

Cinderella forsakes the handsome prince and runs off with the fairy godmother; Beauty discovers the Beast behind the mask is not so very different from the face she sees in the mirror; Snow White is awakened from slumber by the bittersweet fruit of an unnamed desire.

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Critic Reviews

"Stunning. " ( The Boston Globe)
"Sophisticated, provocative, and bracing. " ( The New York Times Book Review)
"A masterful, gorgeous, and wickedly well written book." (Francesca Lia Block, author of Dangerous Angels: The Weetzie Bat Books)
"These tales are revolutionary." ( The San Francisco Examiner & Chronicle)
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Had me chuckling and umm and aaaaaaahing. Loved the ways it was read. Truly wonderful.

A queer sort of magic

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A matryoska doll of queer and feminist fairytale retellings, each spilling forth from the last. The incomplete nature of each tale gave the collection a charm I personally enjoyed a lot.

4 stars

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