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The Girl with Glass Feet : A Novel by Ali Shaw (2010, Hardcover)
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- Artikelzustand
- Type
- Novel
- ISBN
- 9780805091144
- Book Title
- Girl with Glass Feet : a Novel
- Item Length
- 8.5in
- Publisher
- Holt & Company, Henry
- Publication Year
- 2010
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.1in
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topic
- Psychological, Fantasy / General, Literary
- Item Width
- 6.5in
- Item Weight
- 15.5 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 304 Pages
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An inventive and richly visual novel about young lovers on a quest to find a cure for a magical ailment, perfect for readers of Alice Hoffman Strange things are happening on the remote and snowbound archipelago of St. Hauda's Land. Unusual winged creatures flit around the icy bogland, albino animals hide themselves in the snow-glazed woods, and Ida Maclaird is slowly turning into glass. Ida is an outsider in these parts, a mainlander who has visited the islands only once before. Yet during that one fateful visit the glass transformation began to take hold, and now she has returned in search of a cure. Midas Crook is a young loner who has lived on the islands his entire life. When he meets Ida, something about her sad, defiant spirit pierces his emotional defenses. As Midas helps Ida come to terms with her affliction, she gradually unpicks the knots of his heart. Love must be paid in precious hours and, as the glass encroaches, time is slipping away fast. Will they find a way to stave off the spread of the glass? The Girl with Glass Feet is a dazzlingly imaginative and magical first novel, a love story to treasure.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Holt & Company, Henry
ISBN-10
0805091149
ISBN-13
9780805091144
eBay Product ID (ePID)
74773424
Product Key Features
Book Title
Girl with Glass Feet : a Novel
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Psychological, Fantasy / General, Literary
Publication Year
2010
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
304 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.5in
Item Height
1.1in
Item Width
6.5in
Item Weight
15.5 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Pr6119.H387g57 2009
Reviews
"Fantastically imagined.... The hybrid form of the book-fairy tale, myth, psychological realism and fantasy-impresses. But Shaw's most delightful offerings are the vivid details he provides to make the magical real.... As Ida turns to glass, Midas must continue his own transformation, from hardened to human. The end of the book, saturated with color and emotion, is risky and brave like the message it imparts. Only a heart of glass would be unmoved."-Robin Romm,New YorkTimes Book Review "Ali Shaw has created a memorable addition to [the] fabulist pantheon in his gorgeous first novel,The Girl with Glass Feet.... Over the course of this eerie, bewitching novel, the mixture of love and grief and the imminence of death become as memorable as Ida's mysterious, dreadful transformation and Midas's more achingly human one ... Shaw acknowledges the influence of writers like Andersen, Kafka and Borges (Shaw's menagerie of perfectly detailed, marvelous creatures could have stepped from the pages of "The Book of Imaginary Beings"). But it's Andersen's melancholy tales, steeped in loss and a brooding sense of fatedness, that shimmer around the edges ofThe Girl with Glass Feet. Every character in this novel yearns for a love that seems just out of reach: Midas's unhappy parents; Henry Fuwa; Carl Maulsen, who loved Ida's mother; Emiliana, the island woman who might have a cure for Ida's illness; Ida herself-all of them are bound by threads of betrayal and desire and hope, until Fate cuts those threads, calmly and without remorse."-Elizabeth Hand,WashingtonPost "The Girl with Glass Feetis a love story, not just about two people falling in love, but also about love itself: its power, its limits, and its consequences.... Although Shaw's novel is set in the present, everything's turned askew, resulting in a world that is at once banal-the car won't start; the coffee's getting cold-and fantastical-glass feet; glass hearts. Shaw makes the crucial decision to leave the human emotions and relationships in the realm of the believable, while embedding them in terrain that is ever so slightly surreal. Somehow it's never implausible. Shaw is at his best when describing the fantastical world he's created. His language manages to be poetic and economical.... The look, the sound, and the scent of St. Hauda's Land stay with you after turning the last page of this beautiful novel."-Buzzy Jackson,The Boston Globe "Ali Shaw's engrossing and moving debut novel ... is a story of a strange land and its strange inhabitants, but at heart it's a sincere but unsentimental love story.... The joy that Ida and Midas share, after Midas takes those first risky steps toward love, is so beautifully captured that their happiness beats back the drear and shadows.... The dreamy atmosphere curls around you until you see, hear and smell the moors and bogs.... The ending bridges the gap between fairy tales old and new."-Lisa McLendon,WichitaEagle "The cold northern islands of St. Hauda's Land are home to strange creatures and intertwining human secrets in Shaw's earnest, magic-tinged debut.... Both love story and dirge, Shaw's novel flows gracefully and is wonderfully dreamlike, with the danger of the islands matched by the characters' dark pasts."-Publishers Weekly "This lovely fable is a chain of linked mysteries w, "Fantastically imagined. . . . The hybrid form of the book-fairy tale, myth, psychological realism and fantasy-impresses. But Shaw's most delightful offerings are the vivid details he provides to make the magical real. . . . As Ida turns to glass, Midas must continue his own transformation, from hardened to human. The end of the book, saturated with color and emotion, is risky and brave like the message it imparts. Only a heart of glass would be unmoved."-Robin Romm,New YorkTimes Book Review "The Girl with Glass Feetis a love story, not just about two people falling in love, but also about love itself: its power, its limits, and its consequences. . . . Although Shaw's novel is set in the present, everything's turned askew, resulting in a world that is at once banal-the car won't start; the coffee's getting cold-and fantastical-glass feet; glass hearts. Shaw makes the crucial decision to leave the human emotions and relationships in the realm of the believable, while embedding them in terrain that is ever so slightly surreal. Somehow it's never implausible. Shaw is at his best when describing the fantastical world he's created. His language manages to be poetic and economical. . . . The look, the sound, and the scent of St. Hauda's Land stay with you after turning the last page of this beautiful novel."-Buzzy Jackson,The Boston Globe "Ali Shaw's engrossing and moving debut novel . . . is a story of a strange land and its strange inhabitants, but at heart it's a sincere but unsentimental love story. . . . The joy that Ida and Midas share, after Midas takes those first risky steps toward love, is so beautifully captured that their happiness beats back the drear and shadows. . . . The dreamy atmosphere curls around you until you see, hear and smell the moors and bogs. . . . The ending bridges the gap between fairy tales old and new."-Lisa McLendon,WichitaEagle "The cold northern islands of St. Hauda's Land are home to strange creatures and intertwining human secrets in Shaw's earnest, magic-tinged debut. . . . Both love story and dirge, Shaw's novel flows gracefully and is wonderfully dreamlike, with the danger of the islands matched by the characters' dark pasts."-Publishers Weekly "This lovely fable is a chain of linked mysteries with accelerating suspense that propels the reader deep into Shaw's world of marvels. That world is crafted with elegance and swept by passionate magic and the yearning for connection. A rare pleasure."-Katherine Dunn, author ofGeek Love "Written in the tradition of magical realists like Haruki Murakami and Gabriel Garcia Marquez,The Girl with Glass Feetis a singular, slippery narrative that defies easy categorization. Shaw writes finely honed prose and knows how to wring maximum suspense out of a tightly woven plot. His is an accomplished first novel-a hypnotic book with an atmosphere all its own."-Julie Hale,Bookpage "Emotional entanglements on a faraway frozen island are shaped by romance and tragedy in a melancholic yet whimsical British debut. . . . [A] strikingly visual novel. . . . captivatingly ethereal."-Kirkus Reviews
Copyright Date
2009
Lccn
2009-021780
Dewey Decimal
823/.92
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
22
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