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A Wild Winter Swan by Gregory Maguire SIGNED 1st Edition 1st Printing HB DJ LNC!
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A book that looks new but has been read. Cover has no visible wear, and the dust jacket (if applicable) is included for hard covers. No missing or damaged pages, no creases or tears, and no underlining/highlighting of text or writing in the margins. May be very minimal identifying marks on the inside cover. Very minimal wear and tear. See the seller’s listing for full details and description of any imperfections.
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Like New
- Seller Notes
- Signed By
- Gregory Maguire
- Signed
- Yes
- Book Series
- Stand Alone
- Ex Libris
- No
- Narrative Type
- Fiction
- Original Language
- English
- Intended Audience
- Ages 4-8, Ages 9-12, Young Adults, Adults
- Inscribed
- No
- Edition
- First Edition, 1st Edition, First Print, 1st Print, First Printing, 1st Printing
- Vintage
- No
- Personalize
- No
- Type
- Novel
- Literary Movement
- Modernism
- Era
- 2020s
- Personalized
- No
- Features
- 1st Edition, 1st Printing, SIGNED By Author, Hardcover, Like New Condition, Gregory Maguire, A Wild Winter Swan, 2020 Release, NOT BCE!
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- United States
- ISBN
- 9780062980786
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
HarperCollins
ISBN-10
0062980785
ISBN-13
9780062980786
eBay Product ID (ePID)
22038263209
Product Key Features
Book Title
Wild Winter Swan : a Novel
Number of Pages
240 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology, Literary, Coming of Age, Historical
Publication Year
2020
Genre
Fiction
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.1 in
Item Weight
13.3 Oz
Item Length
8.6 in
Item Width
5.9 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2020-005502
TitleLeading
A
Reviews
Maguire, whose gift for transforming children's stories is most famously on display in Wicked, works his magic once again with this retelling of Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale The Wild Swans. An enchanting, tender, often funny coming-of-age story whose perceptive truths about the human condition surprise and delight., Sensitive depictions of generational and coming-of-age conflicts intertwine with whimsy as Maguire touchingly shows how people invoke stories to help elucidate their complicated world., Gregory Maguire still has the magic touch . . . Maguire tells Laura's story in lush prose, laced with humor and poignancy, weaving the fabulous into the quotidian world. It's a spell you'll be happy to have cast upon you., Maguire, whose gift for transforming children's stories is most famously on display in Wicked, works his magic once again with this retelling of Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale 'The Wild Swans.' An enchanting, tender, often funny coming-of-age story whose perceptive truths about the human condition surprise and delight., This is a novel that is meant to be read in a book nook with thick socks and a winter sweater. It is a very comfortable read, where moments of stress and sadness bloom into scenes of real mystery and beauty . . . A Wild Winter Swan is unlike anything I have read in a long time--in its intimacy, simplicity and welcoming solace., Maguire (Wicked) continues his fabulist fairy tale remixes with this enchanting story, . . . Maguire parallels the swan boy's story of brokenness to Laura's own struggles overcoming class and cultural differences. Fans of Maguire's retellings will love this simple, elegant story., "Maguire (Wicked) continues his fabulist fairy tale remixes with this enchanting story, . . . Maguire parallels the swan boy's story of brokenness to Laura's own struggles overcoming class and cultural differences. Fans of Maguire's retellings will love this simple, elegant story." -- Publishers Weekly "As Maguire has so often done before with books like Wicked and Mirror Mirror, A Wild Winter Swan is a delight of fantasy and the grotesquely beautiful in all of us." -- San Francisco Book Review "A comical, entertaining, heartfelt, and rare story, A Wild Winter Swan is the highbrow fairy tale your fall yearns for." -- Shondaland "Maguire, whose gift for transforming children's stories is most famously on display in Wicked, works his magic once again with this retelling of Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale 'The Wild Swans.' An enchanting, tender, often funny coming-of-age story whose perceptive truths about the human condition surprise and delight." -- Library Journal (starred review) "This is a novel that is meant to be read in a book nook with thick socks and a winter sweater. It is a very comfortable read, where moments of stress and sadness bloom into scenes of real mystery and beauty . . . A Wild Winter Swan is unlike anything I have read in a long time--in its intimacy, simplicity and welcoming solace." -- Bookreporter.com "Sensitive depictions of generational and coming-of-age conflicts intertwine with whimsy as Maguire touchingly shows how people invoke stories to help elucidate their complicated world." -- Booklist "In a masterful meld of fantasy, longing, and troublesome relationships, Maguire's A Wild Winter Swan shows us, and its young protagonist, that heartfelt connections with other people--and with animals--can lay for us a bridge between life's sorrows and its wonder." -- Historical Novel Society "Gregory Maguire still has the magic touch . . . Maguire tells Laura's story in lush prose, laced with humor and poignancy, weaving the fabulous into the quotidian world. It's a spell you'll be happy to have cast upon you." -- Tampa Bay Times, As Maguire has so often done before with books like Wicked and Mirror Mirror, A Wild Winter Swan is a delight of fantasy and the grotesquely beautiful in all of us., A comical, entertaining, heartfelt, and rare story, A Wild Winter Swan is the highbrow fairy tale your fall yearns for.
Dewey Edition
23
Dewey Decimal
813/.54
Synopsis
After brilliantly reimagining the worlds of Oz, Wonderland, Dickensian London, and the Nutcracker, the New York Times bestselling author of Wicked turns his unconventional genius to Hans Christian Andersen's "The Wild Swans," transforming this classic tale into an Italian-American girl's poignant coming-of-age story, set amid the magic of Christmas in 1960s New York. Following her brother's death and her mother's emotional breakdown, Laura now lives on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, in a lonely townhouse she shares with her old-world, strict, often querulous grandparents. But the arrangement may be temporary. The quiet, awkward teenager has been getting into trouble at home and has been expelled from her high school for throwing a record album at a popular girl who bullied her. When Christmas is over and the new year begins, Laura may find herself at boarding school in Montreal. Nearly unmoored from reality through her panic and submerged grief, Laura is startled when a handsome swan boy with only one wing lands on her roof. Hiding him from her ever-bickering grandparents, Laura tries to build the swan boy a wing so he can fly home. But the task is too difficult to accomplish herself. Little does Laura know that her struggle to find help for her new friend parallels that of her grandparents, who are desperate for a distant relative's financial aid to save the family store. As he explores themes of class, isolation, family, and the dangerous yearning to be saved by a power greater than ourselves, Gregory Maguire conjures a haunting, beautiful tale of magical realism that illuminates one young woman's heartbreak and hope as she begins the inevitable journey to adulthood., After brilliantly reimagining the worlds of Oz, Wonderland, Dickensian London, and the Nutcracker, the New York Times bestselling author of Wicked turns his unconventional genius to Hans Christian Andersen's "The Wild Swans," transforming this classic tale into an Italian-American girl's poignant coming-of-age story, set amid the magic of Christmas in 1960s New York.Following her brother's death and her mother's emotional breakdown, Laura now lives on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, in a lonely townhouse she shares with her old-world, strict, often querulous grandparents. But the arrangement may be temporary. The quiet, awkward teenager has been getting into trouble at home and has been expelled from her high school for throwing a record album at a popular girl who bullied her. When Christmas is over and the new year begins, Laura may find herself at boarding school in Montreal. Nearly unmoored from reality through her panic and submerged grief, Laura is startled when a handsome swan boy with only one wing lands on her roof. Hiding him from her ever-bickering grandparents, Laura tries to build the swan boy a wing so he can fly home. But the task is too difficult to accomplish herself. Little does Laura know that her struggle to find help for her new friend parallels that of her grandparents, who are desperate for a distant relative's financial aid to save the family store. As he explores themes of class, isolation, family, and the dangerous yearning to be saved by a power greater than ourselves, Gregory Maguire conjures a haunting, beautiful tale of magical realism that illuminates one young woman's heartbreak and hope as she begins the inevitable journey to adulthood.
LC Classification Number
PS3563.A3535W55 2020
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- 9***w (84)- Feedback left by buyer.Past monthVerified purchaseExactly as described, good packaging, and fast shipping. Great Ebay Seller +++
- 9***b (430)- Feedback left by buyer.Past 6 monthsVerified purchaseExcellent item. Well packaged, shipped quickly, and exactly as advertised. Highly recommend this seller.Michael Crichton: Timeline - 1999 1st Edition / 1st Printing Great Condition! (#362547377568)
- r***- (89)- Feedback left by buyer.Past 6 monthsVerified purchaseArrived well protected and in wonderful condition.Strange Highways (Anthology) Dean Koontz 1995 1st Edition 1st Print HB DJ VGC! (#364002011448)