{"product_id":"bone-swans-stories-paperback","title":"Bone Swans: Stories - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eC. S. E. Cooney\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eGene Wolfe\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinner of the 2016 World Fantasy Award for Best Collection\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eContains \"The Bone Swans of Amandale,\" 2015 Nebula Award finalist for Best Novella\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e2015 \u003cem\u003eLocus\u003c\/em\u003e Recommended Reading List, Best Collection and Best Novella\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"C. S. E. Cooney is one of the most moving, daring, and plainly beautiful voices to come out of recent fantasy. She's a powerhouse with a wink in her eye and a song in each pocket.\"\u003cbr\u003e --Catherynne M. Valente, \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e-bestselling author of the \u003cem\u003eFairyland\u003c\/em\u003e novels\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"These stories are a pure joy. C. S. E. Cooney's imagination is wild and varied, her stories bawdy, horrific, comic, and moving-frequently all at the same time. Her characters are wickedly appealing, and her language--O  her language. Lush, playful, poetic, but never obscure or stilted, it makes her magic more magic, her comedy more comic, and her tragic moments almost unbearable.\"\u003cbr\u003e --Delia Sherman, author of \u003cem\u003eYoung Woman in a Garden: Stories\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"\u003cem\u003eBone Swans\u003c\/em\u003e is a joy of feathery bones \u0026amp; ghoulish clowns. I adored every word. Like an eyas cries for meat, I cry for more. C.S.E. Cooney's a major talent and these are major talent stories. Who can resist hero rats, pouting swans, feral children, flying carpets and the Flabberghast? So tongue-tied am I with delight I fall back on the usual cliches: gripping, delightful, insightful, rollicking \u0026amp; lyrical--and yet not one cliche is to be found in \u003cem\u003eBone Swans\u003c\/em\u003e, only stories of surpassing delicacy and wit, told by a lady of rare talent. Please, ma'am, might I have some more?\"\u003cbr\u003e --Ysabeau S. Wilce, Andre Norton Award wining author of \u003cem\u003eFlora's Dare\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e A swan princess hunted for her bones, a broken musician and his silver pipe, and a rat named Maurice bring justice to a town under fell enchantment. A gang of courageous kids confronts both a plague-destroyed world and an afterlife infested with clowns but robbed of laughter. In an island city, the murder of a child unites two lovers, but vengeance will part them. Only human sacrifice will save a city trapped in ice and darkness. Gold spun out of straw has a price, but not the one you expect.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e World Fantasy Award winner Ellen Kushner has called Cooney's writing \"stunningly delicious  Cruel, beautiful and irresistible.\" \u003cem\u003eBone Swans\u003c\/em\u003e, the infernally whimsical debut collection from C. S. E. Cooney, gathers five novellas that in the words of Andre Norton Award winner Delia Sherman are \"bawdy, horrific, comic, and moving-frequently all at the same time.\" Cooney's mentor, Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America Grand Master Gene Wolfe, proclaims in his introduction that her style is so original it can only be described as \"pure Cooney,\" and he offers readers a challenge: \"Try to define that when you've finished the stories in this book.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 226\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.52 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 07, 2015\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51774400889120,"sku":"9780988912441","price":17.23,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/7be143444f18bf8c9f258a44b4dab90e.webp?v=1780448358","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/bone-swans-stories-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}