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Obsessive, prudish, and cold, Merry Gold lives in denial of her own condition. This seamstress — the eldest and meanest of the three Gold sisters — possesses a tarnished past and faces a bleak and lonely future. Guilty about her destructive desires and longing for innocence, her inner turmoil and explosive imagination belie a disarming honesty.
A sequel to The Complete Tales of Ketzia Gold, the novel follows Merry from her suburban childhood through design school and a whirlwind of lovers, and into a desolate adulthood. Beginning with a toy seal and ending with mushrooms, this fairy tale set in modern times creeps through cruelty and violence to its inevitable end.
Reminiscent of a miniature, fragile ice sculpture, The Complete Tales of Merry Gold glistens with hard-hearted bliss. Kate Bernheimer has once again delved into the internal anguish of the Gold family to extract a magical, carefully stitched tale of strange and happy fear.
Review:
"Kate Bernheimer's fiction offers a unique and delicate gift, the tempting mirage of a grace that constantly escapes. The Complete Tales of Merry Gold is an exceptional, lovely book, beautifully enigmatic, speaking a language that mysteriously evokes the unspoken." Lydia Millet, author of How the Dead Dream
Review:
"A real gem, my favorite book of the year. A novel so simple and beautiful that you forget how hard it is to pull off simple and beautiful. Bernheimer's second novel is a great, great success." Willy Vlautin, author of The Motel Life
Review:
"Straightforward, matter-of-fact, and earthy." Village Voice
Review:
"Elegantly spare but evocative." PopMatters
Review:
"Intriguing....Captivating." Review of Contemporary Fiction
About the Author
Kate Bernheimer has been a George Bennett Fellow in Creative Writing at Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire and has taught in the Summer Writing Program at Harvard. She was editor of the book Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: Women Writers Explore their Favorite Fairy Tales. The Complete Tales of Ketzia Gold was her first novel. She teaches at University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa.
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Product Details
- ISBN:
- 9781573661317
- Author:
- Publisher:
- Fiction Collective Two
- Author:
- Subject:
- Literary
- Subject:
- Young women
- Subject:
- Fairy tales
- Publication Date:
- September 2006
- Binding:
- Paperback
- Language:
- English
- Illustrations:
- Y
- Pages:
- 163
- Dimensions:
- 8.46x5.54x.49 in. .55 lbs.
