The Charmed Wife

The Charmed Wife
Olga Grushin
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Hardback
h238 x 158mm - 288pg
21 Jan 2021 UK
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9781529346374
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From the award-winning author comes a sophisticated literary fairy tale for the twenty-first century, in which Cinderella, thirteen years after her marriage, is on the brink of leaving her supposedly perfect life behind. Cinderella married the man of her dreams--the perfect ending she deserved after diligently following all the fairy-tale rules. Yet now, two children and thirteen and a half years later, things have gone badly wrong and her life is far from perfect. One night, fed up, she sneaks out of the palace to get help from the Witch who, for a price, offers love potions to disgruntled housewives. But as the old hag flings the last ingredients into the cauldron, Cinderella doesn' t ask for a love spell to win back her Prince Charming. Instead, she wants him dead. Endlessly surprising, wildly inventive, and decidedly modern, The Charmed Wife weaves together time and place, fantasy and reality, to conjure a world unlike any other. Nothing in it is quite what it seems, and the twists and turns of its magical, dark, swiftly shifting paths take us deep into the heart of what makes us unique, of romance and marriage, and of the very nature of storytelling.
"A dizzying retelling of ' Cinderella, ' one in which nothing is as it seems and fairy tale marriages do not end happily ever after. . . Clever. " -Publishers Weekly"The comedy is devastating in this autopsy of a marriage that dies of ' happily ever after' syndrome. Seldom has such emotional realism been spied in the precincts of wild magic. This alumna of the Cinderella marriage is overwhelmed, over-enchanted, and so over it. Fall under its charms, I dare you. " -Gregory Maguire, author of WickedWith the publication of her first novel, Grushin instantly became one of my favorite writers. She touches the borders of myth and fairytale in everything she does, but never so explicitly as here, in this dark and dreamy retelling of Cinderella. Inside the plot, magic comes and goes. But inside the reader, it' s all magic, all of us happily caught in Grushin' s hypnotic spell. -Karen Joy Fowler, author of We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves and The Jane Austen Book Club In The Charmed Wife, Olga Grushin turns the fairy tale romance on its head, and then just keeps turning it, playfully, subversively, brilliantly: a feat of fierce imagination. -Jess Walter, author of The Cold Millions and Beautiful Ruins"The Charmed Wife is a thought-provoking, wickedly clever, and beautifully written fairy tale character study that enchants at every turn. Olga Grushin dissects fairy tales, marriage, and the messy human heart with a pen as sharp as any scalpel. " -Melissa Bashardoust, author of Girl, Serpent, Thorn Lush and powerful, The Charmed Wife is brimful of magic and the seething darkness that lies beneath the glittering surface of every good fairy tale. -Leife Shallcross, author of The Beast' s Heart
Olga Grushin is the author of Forty Rooms, The Line, and The Dream Life of Sukhanov, which won the New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award and earned her a place on Granta' s Best Young American Novelists list. It was also a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Award for First Fiction and England' s Orange Prize for New Writers, and was one of The New York Times' Notable Books of the Year. Both it and her second novel, The Line, were among The Washington Post' s Ten Best Books of the Year. Born in Moscow and having moved to the United States at eighteen, Grushin writes in English and her novels have been translated into fifteen languages. She lives outside Washington, D. C. , with her two children.
Status: Indent title, imported to order
ISBN-13: 9781529346374
Published: 21 Jan 2021
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Hodder & Stoughton
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Format: Hardback
Height: 238mm
Width: 158mm
Spine: 32mm
Weight: 480g
Pages: 288

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