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Publisher:
Global Authors Publications, Inc. 2004 |
Release
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ISBN:
0974216151 |
Awards:
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Genre:
Ficton / Eclectic Story Collection |
Reviewed:
2004 |
Reviewer:
Carolyn Howard-Johnson |
Reviewer
Notes: Rating: 5 of 5 Reviewer Carolyn Howard-Johnson
is the award-winning author of This is the Place and Harkening:
A Collection of Stories Remembered |
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Shadow
of the Rose
By Annette Gisby
Magical Stories
Told by Editor of Silent Screams
Here
are about a dozen magical stories, very different from one another
but all feeling a bit like the ones we knew in the days when we
were read to. They have a fireside quality to them. Each has an
aura of the fairy tale from the Childcraft or Big Golden Books we
knew way back then.
That
does not mean that author Annette Gisby has not updated her stories.
She gives us women who are much like the romantic characters that
float through our favorites like "String of Pearls," "Sleeping
Beauty," or "Rapunzel" but they are updated; they
are in new flower. She also well knows how to give a story a Guy
DeMaupassant twist.
In
her stories, we see the influence of the author's Irish heritage,
the literature, the oral tradition. We can almost imagine a Leprechaun
muse sitting on the corner of Gisby's desk or perched on her computer
screen and she is at her best when she lets him talk through her
as she did in the story of "The Witch Hunter." She is
on less firm ground (although certainly still adept) when she attempts
more modern tales like "The Glass Guitar."
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