The Rental Heart and Other Fairytales

The Rental Heart and Other Fairytales

143 pages
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Published: 3 Mar 2014
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ISBN: 9781907773754

Format: Paperback

Language: English

Publisher: Salt Publishing

Publication date: 15 March 2014

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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 alternative 19th-century Paris, a love triangle emerges between a man, a woman, and a coin-operated boy.• A teenager deals with his sister’s death by escaping from their tiny Scottish island – but will she let him leave?• In 1920s New Orleans, a young girl comes of age in her mother’s brothel.Some of these stories are radical retellings of classic tales, some are modern-day fables, but all explore substitutions for love.

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