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Kissing the Witch (Hardcover)

by Emma Donoghue (Author)
4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (8 customer reviews)

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Product details

  • Hardcover: 224 pages
  • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd; New edition edition (26 Mar 1998)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0140258027
  • ISBN-13: 978-0140258028
  • Product Dimensions: 19.8 x 12.8 x 1.5 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 716,289 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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"Stunning. "-- "The Boston Globe""Sophisticated, provocative, and bracing. "-- "The New York Times Book Review""A masterful, gorgeous, and wickedly well written book.-- Francesca Lia Block, author of "Dangerous Angels: The Weetzie Bat Books""These tales are revolutionary."-- "The San Francisco Examiner & Chronicle"

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Focusing on women and their self-perception, this book contains 13 interconnected stories which update classical European fairy tales. Each story forms a narrative chain, with characters passing the storyteller's baton from tale to tale.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A fresh approach to fairy tales, 23 Mar 2000
By A. Steffe "haraniya" (Derby) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Kissing the Witch (Hardcover)
This book is so inspiring it makes you twitch! It weaves fairy tale narration with beautiful prose and sweet humour. The way each story links to the next is intriguing and makes it so easy to read! You can finish it in a ten minute coffee break.

This is one of my favourite books because of the approach to timeless stories and the seductive vulnerbility if each of the female characters. Each tale has a twist, which makes it thoroughly enjoyable to read.

I can't believe I found it in a tiny back street sea-side book shop for little under three quid! Bargain! And a treasure...

wups, no I got it from here and it was a bargain and a treasure.

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4.0 out of 5 stars 13 beautifully told, warm stories linked by one word: LOVE, 8 Aug 1999
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All emotions of life can be found in this book. Donoghue uses old fairy tales and makes them, in her own special way, ready for the 20th century. Beautiful metaphores make you feel you are the princes in the tower or the witch in the cave. A book all women will love, lesbian or straight.
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5.0 out of 5 stars simple, pick up any time, magical read., 21 Mar 2008
I read this book from cover to cover years ago and gave it away as a present and have regretted it ever since. There is just something about this book, must be the fairy in it, an essence of it never leaves you. I agree with all the other reviews, tecnically, metaphorically, etc. but there is just an extra something that sinks into your unconscious never to be forgotten, the voice or sound of our sisters in the past and future. A subtle simple evocative book that touches some chord within. Definitely one to possess and keep on the shelf. mmmmmm
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4.0 out of 5 stars modern day classics
An impressive book on the whole. It is comprised of several short stories but each one is linked so that one story leads to the next. Read more
Published 21 months ago by RD

5.0 out of 5 stars A Celebration the Storytelling Tradition
A book only deserves 5 starts if there is truly something special and unique about it. When the writer has dared to venture beyond the normality and boundaries of the expected... Read more
Published on 29 April 2005 by Mew Blackburn

5.0 out of 5 stars A Celebration the Storytelling Tradition
A book only deserves 5 starts if there is truly something special and unique about it. When the writer has dared to venture beyond the normality and boundaries of the expected... Read more
Published on 29 April 2005 by Mew Blackburn

1.0 out of 5 stars Forgive me
Forgive me, but I truly do not understand all the excitement about this book. It was poorly and unimaginatively written, and Donoghue's takes on traditional fairy tales were... Read more
Published on 17 Dec 2000

5.0 out of 5 stars Beautifully written escapism
Donoghue paints an ethereal, dreamlike fantasy which soothes the spirit through her gentle use of language and rhythm in this collection of fairy tales. Read more
Published on 17 Feb 2000

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