Dreadful Young Ladies and Other Stories Lib/E
Product Description
From award-winning, New York Times bestselling author Kelly Barnhill comes a stunning collection of nine stories teeming with uncanny characters whose lives unfold in worlds at once strikingly human and eerily original. When Mrs. Sorensen's husband dies, she rekindles a long-dormant love with an unsuitable mate in Mrs. Sorensen and the Sasquatch. In Open the Door and the Light Pours Through, a young man wrestles with grief and his sexuality in an exchange of letters with his faraway beloved. Dreadful Young Ladies demonstrates the strength and power--known and unknown--of the imagination. The World Fantasy Award-winning novella
The Unlicensed Magician introduces the secret, magical life of an invisible girl once left for dead. By an author hailed as a fantasist on the order of Neil Gaiman (
Minneapolis Star Tribune), the stories in
Dreadful Young Ladies feature bold, reality-bending fantasy underscored by rich universal themes of love, death, jealousy, and hope.
Review
"Featuring elements of magic realism while touching on the themes of love, grief, hope, jealousy, and more...[A] spellbinding collection."-- "Booklist"
"Reminiscent of Ray Bradbury or Angela Carter...Whether Barnhill's settings are contemporary, historical, or dystopian, she mixes the feeling of fairy tales with the psychological preoccupations of literary fiction."-- "Kirkus Reviews"
"The eight short stories and one novella in Newbery Medalist Barnhill's collection are haunting and beautifully told...Each story is written in intensely poetic language that can exult or disturb, sometimes within the same sentence, and evokes a dreamlike, enchanted mood that lingers in the reader's mind. These tales are made to be reread and savored."-- "Publishers Weekly (starred review)"
About the Author
Kelly Barnhill is a poet and writer who also wrote
The Witch's Boy and
Iron Hearted Violet.
The Mostly True Story of Jack, her debut novel, received four starred reviews. Kelly lives in Minnesota with her husband and three children.
British narrator John Lee has read audiobooks in almost every conceivable genre, from Charles Dickens to Patrick O'Brian, and from the very real life of Napoleon to the entirely imagined lives of sorcerers and swashbucklers. He has won numerous Audie Awards and AudioFile Earphones Awards, and he was named a Golden Voice by AudioFile in 2009. Lee is also an accomplished stage actor and wrote and coproduced the feature films Breathing Hard and Forfeit.
From award-winning, New York Times bestselling author Kelly Barnhill comes a stunning collection of nine stories teeming with uncanny characters whose lives unfold in worlds at once strikingly human and eerily original. When Mrs. Sorensen's husband dies, she rekindles a long-dormant love with an unsuitable mate in Mrs. Sorensen and the Sasquatch. In Open the Door and the Light Pours Through, a young man wrestles with grief and his sexuality in an exchange of letters with his faraway beloved. Dreadful Young Ladies demonstrates the strength and power--known and unknown--of the imagination. The World Fantasy Award-winning novella
The Unlicensed Magician introduces the secret, magical life of an invisible girl once left for dead. By an author hailed as a fantasist on the order of Neil Gaiman (
Minneapolis Star Tribune), the stories in
Dreadful Young Ladies feature bold, reality-bending fantasy underscored by rich universal themes of love, death, jealousy, and hope.
Review
"Featuring elements of magic realism while touching on the themes of love, grief, hope, jealousy, and more...[A] spellbinding collection."-- "Booklist"
"Reminiscent of Ray Bradbury or Angela Carter...Whether Barnhill's settings are contemporary, historical, or dystopian, she mixes the feeling of fairy tales with the psychological preoccupations of literary fiction."-- "Kirkus Reviews"
"The eight short stories and one novella in Newbery Medalist Barnhill's collection are haunting and beautifully told...Each story is written in intensely poetic language that can exult or disturb, sometimes within the same sentence, and evokes a dreamlike, enchanted mood that lingers in the reader's mind. These tales are made to be reread and savored."-- "Publishers Weekly (starred review)"
About the Author
Kelly Barnhill is a poet and writer who also wrote
The Witch's Boy and
Iron Hearted Violet.
The Mostly True Story of Jack, her debut novel, received four starred reviews. Kelly lives in Minnesota with her husband and three children.
British narrator John Lee has read audiobooks in almost every conceivable genre, from Charles Dickens to Patrick O'Brian, and from the very real life of Napoleon to the entirely imagined lives of sorcerers and swashbucklers. He has won numerous Audie Awards and AudioFile Earphones Awards, and he was named a Golden Voice by AudioFile in 2009. Lee is also an accomplished stage actor and wrote and coproduced the feature films Breathing Hard and Forfeit.
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RELEASED2018
PUBLISHERHighBridge Audio
LANGUAGEEN
Dreadful Young Ladies and Other Stories Lib/E
Product Description
From award-winning, New York Times bestselling author Kelly Barnhill comes a stunning collection of nine stories teeming with uncanny characters whose lives unfold in worlds at once strikingly human and eerily original. When Mrs. Sorensen's husband dies, she rekindles a long-dormant love with an unsuitable mate in Mrs. Sorensen and the Sasquatch. In Open the Door and the Light Pours Through, a young man wrestles with grief and his sexuality in an exchange of letters with his faraway beloved. Dreadful Young Ladies demonstrates the strength and power--known and unknown--of the imagination. The World Fantasy Award-winning novella
The Unlicensed Magician introduces the secret, magical life of an invisible girl once left for dead. By an author hailed as a fantasist on the order of Neil Gaiman (
Minneapolis Star Tribune), the stories in
Dreadful Young Ladies feature bold, reality-bending fantasy underscored by rich universal themes of love, death, jealousy, and hope.
Review
"Featuring elements of magic realism while touching on the themes of love, grief, hope, jealousy, and more...[A] spellbinding collection."-- "Booklist"
"Reminiscent of Ray Bradbury or Angela Carter...Whether Barnhill's settings are contemporary, historical, or dystopian, she mixes the feeling of fairy tales with the psychological preoccupations of literary fiction."-- "Kirkus Reviews"
"The eight short stories and one novella in Newbery Medalist Barnhill's collection are haunting and beautifully told...Each story is written in intensely poetic language that can exult or disturb, sometimes within the same sentence, and evokes a dreamlike, enchanted mood that lingers in the reader's mind. These tales are made to be reread and savored."-- "Publishers Weekly (starred review)"
About the Author
Kelly Barnhill is a poet and writer who also wrote
The Witch's Boy and
Iron Hearted Violet.
The Mostly True Story of Jack, her debut novel, received four starred reviews. Kelly lives in Minnesota with her husband and three children.
British narrator John Lee has read audiobooks in almost every conceivable genre, from Charles Dickens to Patrick O'Brian, and from the very real life of Napoleon to the entirely imagined lives of sorcerers and swashbucklers. He has won numerous Audie Awards and AudioFile Earphones Awards, and he was named a Golden Voice by AudioFile in 2009. Lee is also an accomplished stage actor and wrote and coproduced the feature films Breathing Hard and Forfeit.
From award-winning, New York Times bestselling author Kelly Barnhill comes a stunning collection of nine stories teeming with uncanny characters whose lives unfold in worlds at once strikingly human and eerily original. When Mrs. Sorensen's husband dies, she rekindles a long-dormant love with an unsuitable mate in Mrs. Sorensen and the Sasquatch. In Open the Door and the Light Pours Through, a young man wrestles with grief and his sexuality in an exchange of letters with his faraway beloved. Dreadful Young Ladies demonstrates the strength and power--known and unknown--of the imagination. The World Fantasy Award-winning novella
The Unlicensed Magician introduces the secret, magical life of an invisible girl once left for dead. By an author hailed as a fantasist on the order of Neil Gaiman (
Minneapolis Star Tribune), the stories in
Dreadful Young Ladies feature bold, reality-bending fantasy underscored by rich universal themes of love, death, jealousy, and hope.
Review
"Featuring elements of magic realism while touching on the themes of love, grief, hope, jealousy, and more...[A] spellbinding collection."-- "Booklist"
"Reminiscent of Ray Bradbury or Angela Carter...Whether Barnhill's settings are contemporary, historical, or dystopian, she mixes the feeling of fairy tales with the psychological preoccupations of literary fiction."-- "Kirkus Reviews"
"The eight short stories and one novella in Newbery Medalist Barnhill's collection are haunting and beautifully told...Each story is written in intensely poetic language that can exult or disturb, sometimes within the same sentence, and evokes a dreamlike, enchanted mood that lingers in the reader's mind. These tales are made to be reread and savored."-- "Publishers Weekly (starred review)"
About the Author
Kelly Barnhill is a poet and writer who also wrote
The Witch's Boy and
Iron Hearted Violet.
The Mostly True Story of Jack, her debut novel, received four starred reviews. Kelly lives in Minnesota with her husband and three children.
British narrator John Lee has read audiobooks in almost every conceivable genre, from Charles Dickens to Patrick O'Brian, and from the very real life of Napoleon to the entirely imagined lives of sorcerers and swashbucklers. He has won numerous Audie Awards and AudioFile Earphones Awards, and he was named a Golden Voice by AudioFile in 2009. Lee is also an accomplished stage actor and wrote and coproduced the feature films Breathing Hard and Forfeit.
Literature & FictionLiteraryShort Stories & AnthologiesAnthologiesShort StoriesScience Fiction & FantasyFantasy
RELEASED2018
PUBLISHERHighBridge Audio
LANGUAGEEN
