by Ciaran Carson (Author)
These stories rework myths and fables. It is, in form, a kind of magic alphabet, from A to Z, with the subjects drawn from chillingly comic Irish fairy tales; from Ovid's Metamorphoses ; and from the history of the Dutch Golden Age.
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 368
Publisher: Granta Books
Published: 28 Oct 1999
ISBN 10: 1862073023
ISBN 13: 9781862073029
Book Overview: Ciaran Carson has been awarded the Irish Times Irish Literature Prize and the T.S. Eliot Poetry Prize, as well as the Yorkshire Post Prize for The Star Factory .