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La fille aux pieds de verre : un roman de Shaw, Ali
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Caractéristiques de l'objet
- État
- ISBN
- 9780312680459
- EAN
- 9780312680459
- Book Title
- Girl with Glass Feet : a Novel
- Item Length
- 8.3in
- Publisher
- Picador
- Publication Year
- 2011
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.8in
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topic
- Literary, Romance / Fantasy
- Item Width
- 5.5in
- Item Weight
- 9.9 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 304 Pages
À propos de ce produit
Product Information
WINNER OF THE DESMOND ELLIOTT PRIZE Strange things are happening on the remote and snowbound archipelago of St. Hauda's Land. Magical 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 who has only visited the islands 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. The Girl with Glass Feet is a love story to treasure, "crafted with elegance and swept by passionate magic and the yearning for connection. A rare pleasure" (Katherine Dunn, author of Geek Love ).
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Picador
ISBN-10
0312680457
ISBN-13
9780312680459
eBay Product ID (ePID)
92869495
Product Key Features
Book Title
Girl with Glass Feet : a Novel
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Literary, Romance / Fantasy
Publication Year
2011
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
304 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.3in
Item Height
0.8in
Item Width
5.5in
Item Weight
9.9 Oz
Additional Product Features
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., Ali Shaw has a gift for storytelling and an obvious love of language. His descriptions are poetic and original.... The Girl With Glass Feet is a work of great imagination and talent. Mr. Shaw never tells us what causes the glassification, but that leaves the reader open to decide whether the tale is merely a modern fairy tale, or whether turning into glass is in itself a metaphor for a larger, human condition that creates change bringing moments of pain and pleasure., 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., 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., 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., Ali Shaw shows immense promise with his deft use of language, which sings in a book that is at its heart filled with sadness. The soft light on the island plays coyly with the thick vegetation, casting glorious shadows and producing a riot of images all ably captured by Midas' camera and Shaw's prose., The Girl with Glass Feet is not just special--it's remarkable.... [This] debut novel conjures up the extraordinary and fantastic, yet places it firmly in our digital world.... It's a very visual novel--readers who enjoy using their imagination will adore it., Shaw has worked the great tradition of European fairy tales and come up with an ingenious story ... A magical fable of fate and resignation., Ali Shaw offers the rare delight of a world freshly and richly imagined.... The story is soothingly spellbinding, pulling the reader with steady delicacy into the hearts and minds of its characters amid the enthralling murmur of the fantastical., 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 of The 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., "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, Written in the tradition of magical realists like Haruki Murakami and Gabriel Garcia Marquez, The Girl with Glass Feet is 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., 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., A haunting and magical tale.... One of the most original and memorable love stories I've read in a long time.... It takes a real talent to create such an imaginative setting yet still make readers believe and care about the characters, but first-time novelist Ali Shaw pulls it off in dazzling style, spinning an unforgettable story so vividly described that the reader is only too willing to suspend disbelief in order to be transported into his sad and lovely world., The Girl with Glass Feet is 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., On the surface, the book is magical, seemingly as transparent as Ida's toes. Like all the best fairy tales, though, it's tinted with a pervading sense of unease that sticks with the reader long after the cover is closed. Midas's love for a woman who is leaving the real world he despises, Ida's lost grip on humanity, the very land on which they meet, are all deeper and darker than they seem, making this a book well worth reading.
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823/.92
Dewey Edition
22
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