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Gregory Maguire - 2 boeken Engels


What-The-Dickens: The Story Of A Rogue Tooth Fairy:

On the darkest night, amidst a terrifying storm, Dinah's parents go missing. 
While anxious Dinah and her brother and sister worry and huddle for warmth, 
their cousin Gage tells them an unlikely story that tooth fairies, known as 
skibbereen, are living in warring colonies right in the neighborhood. 
According to Gage, they actually put those teeth to good use. And he, Gage, 
has met them. Dinah is skeptical, but as the story unfolds and 
the storm rages on, she begins to believe.

Matchless:

When the story was first translated from Danish and published in England in 
the mid-nineteenth century, the Little Match Girl's dying visions of lights 
and a grandmother in heaven were often interpreted as metaphors of religious 
salvation. In "Matchless", Maguire adds a different dimension to the story, 
intertwining the match girl's tale with that of a young boy, Frederik, whose 
own yearnings are the catalyst for a better future for himself and his family. 
Maguire uses his storytelling magic to rekindle Andersen's original 
intentions, and to suggest transcendence, the permanence of spirit, and the 
continuity that links the living and the dead. 


Met dank aan originele poster,scanner