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22%OFFKirsty Logan - The Rental Heart and Other Fairytales - 9781907773754 - V9781907773754
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The Rental Heart and Other Fairytales

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Description for The Rental Heart and Other Fairytales Paperback. Twenty tales of lust and loss. These stories feature clockwork hearts, lascivious queens, paper men, island circuses, and a flooded world; some are radical retellings of classic stories, some are modern-day fables, but all explore substitutions for love. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 10. Weight in Grams: 128.
Winner of the Scott Prize Winner of the 2015 Polari First Book Prize Winner of the Saboteur Award for Best Short Story Collection The Herald: Book of the Year 2014 Shortlisted for the 2014 Green Carnation Prize Twenty tales of lust and loss. These stories feature clockwork hearts, lascivious queens, paper men, island circuses, and a flooded world. On the island of Skye, an antlered girl and a tiger-tailed boy resolve never to be friends - but can they resist their unique connection? In an ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Salt Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
160
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781907773754
SKU
V9781907773754
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-7

About Kirsty Logan
Kirsty Logan is an award-winning writer based in Scotland. Her fiction has been published in literary magazines and anthologies all over the world, broadcast on BBC Radio 4, displayed in galleries, and translated into French, Japanese and Spanish. Kirsty has received fellowships from Hawthornden Castle and Brownsbank Cottage, and was the first writer-in-residence at West Dean College. She has previously ... Read more

Reviews for The Rental Heart and Other Fairytales
As you can tell from my enthusiastic attempt to untangle the meaning of these stories, despite their relative brevity they contain a wealth of ideas. Kirsty Logan is very clever in the way she uses a range of writer's tools to create the most effect style of storytelling to fit the diverse subject matters she covers. Having been a teenage ... Read more

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