Mirror, Mirror

by Silverman (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  2002

  $3.24

  A fantastical collection of cool and intriguing stories about transforming experiences and magic realities - strange tales in which things are not what they seem, they can't be and yet, they are. Stories where the scent of a flower can turn you into a slave and strange voices can be heard from behind a mirror. A glass room in which terrifying magic takes place every night. You will meet Craig a boy who is forced to fight with Death for his brother's life; an inventor who uses his daughter's hair to distil an all-powerful elixir with hideous results; and Hedley, an ordinary schoolboy who wakes up one morning to find he has exchanged lives with the street boy who sleeps opposite his house...These are worlds of transformation where an honest word, a secret or a trick of courage can release you from a frightening fate. Mirror, Mirror is magical realism at its best - well written stories reminiscent of half forgotten fairy tales but given an older, dramatic and very modern new twist.