{"product_id":"9781472154125","title":"The Merry Spinster","description":"Author: Daniel Mallory Ortberg\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781472154125\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Little Brown\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 03 Oct 2019\u003cbr\u003ePages: 208 \u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Dark and dreadful and persistently clever. Ortberg bloodily turns familiar tales inside out.' Rainbow Rowell\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A collection of stories delectable, formidable, and nimble. As a fantasist and short story writer, Ortberg is without peer.' Kelly Link\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Ortberg has a voracious appetite for poison apples, and a genius for finding the places in fairyland where all the bodies are buried. \u003ci\u003eThe Merry Spinster\u003c\/i\u003e will ruin your most-loved fables, in the best possible way.' Charlie Jane Anders\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Ortberg has the sloe gin wit of Dorothy Parker and the soul of a Classics nerd. It's like both of them sat next to each other in \u003ci\u003eThe Merry Spinster\u003c\/i\u003e and gossiped away. The result is an absolute delight.' John Scalzi\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e'Ortberg has created a Frankenstein's monster of familiar narratives . . . [that swings] between Terry Pratchett's satirical jocularity and Angela Carter's sinister, shrewd storytelling, and the result is gorgeous, unsettling, splenic, cruel, and wickedly smart. I've never read anything quite like them, and I bet, Dear Reader, that you haven't either.'  Carmen Maria Machado\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA collection of darkly mischievous stories based on classic fairy tales. Sinister and inviting, familiar and alien all at the same time, \u003ci\u003eThe Merry Spinster\u003c\/i\u003e updates traditional children's stories and fairy tales with elements of psychological horror, emotional clarity, and a keen sense of feminist mischief.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eUnfalteringly faithful to its beloved source material, \u003ci\u003eThe Merry Spinster\u003c\/i\u003e also illuminates the unsuspected, and frequently alarming, emotional complexities at play in the stories we tell ourselves and each other as we tuck ourselves in for the night.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBed time will never be the same.","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47919461990558,"sku":"ING-9781472154125","price":29.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781472154125.jpg?v=1782812251","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781472154125","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}