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Ruby Slippers, Golden Tears (Mass Market Paperback)

by Ellen Datlow (Editor), Terri Windling (Editor)
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From Publishers Weekly

Datlow and Windling, winners of a World Fantasy Award for their annual Year's Best Fantasy & Horror, score again with this third entry in their provocative volumes of original, updated fairy tales for adults. The collection, which gathers many impressive names from the field of dark fantasy, also contains introductory essays and extensive suggested reading lists. Highlights include Tanith Lee's "The Beast," a disturbing but all too believable vision of psychopathy and art, and a rather different take on art's worth in an even more unsettling story by Garry Kilworth ("Masterpiece"). Joyce Carol Oates offers an exceptionally surrealistic version of the Sleeping Beauty myth, while Roberta Lannes contributes an exceedingly amusing variation on "The Shoemaker and the Elves." The late John Brunner is represented by a masterful fable that employs Chinese myth, an evil emperor and all-powerful dragons, and Nancy Collins creates a wonderfully folksy atmosphere with her Kentucky-set yarn about fear and common sense. Though the collection skews slightly toward tales of damsels in distress imperiled by evil males (it's notable that only six of the 22 stories are by men), it triumphantly concludes with Delia Sherman's uplifting fable about redemption, nobility and friendship. Like its predecessors, Snow White, Blood Red and Black Thorn, White Rose, this anthology is a must for those who believe that "once upon a time" means now.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.


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From Roberta Lanne's upscale retelling of "The Shoemaker and the Elves," in which an ambitious cockroach lends his entrepreneurial talents to a Manhattan tailor ("Roach in Loafers"), to Ellen Steiber's moody tribute to Japanese folklore ("The Fox Wife"), the 22 original stories and poems in this collection bring a modern twist to classic and sometimes obscure fairy tales. Like its predecessors Black Thorn, White Rose (AvoNova: Morrow, 1994) and Snow White, Blood Red (Morrow, 1992), this volume explores new interpretations of old themes. It offers a fresh look at tales no longer for children only. Suitable for most libraries' fantasy or short story collections.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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2.0 out of 5 stars Unnecessarily cruel, May 26 2004
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I had read the book Black Thorn White rose before picking up this anthology and had a lot of hopes for this book. I love the retelling of fairy tales even with a dark twist to them. However, some of the stories in this book are absolutely horrific. The Match Girl, in my opinion, does not belong in a collection of fantasy but instead perhaps in one of horror. Its been a week since I read this book and I still have a bad taste left from it!
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5.0 out of 5 stars the best, so far, Jan 4 2004
By EmBee (Oregon, United States) - See all my reviews
I love the whole Windling/Datlow edited series of fairy tale short stories. This particular book is by far the best one I have read (and I've read them all, to date, Jan 2004). Ellen Steiber's "The Fox Wife" is the best short story I've read in awhile - well worth repeated readings, and even led me to seek out more oriental "fox" tales. Joyce Carol Oates, Neil Gaiman, and Jane Yolen are here, and the editors, for this one collection, have abandoned their informal trademark touch of including that one truly odious story. ALL the stories are of high quality, and if you are a devotee of this genre, you MUST read this one. It's really the best of the bunch! Five stars!
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4.0 out of 5 stars Retellings, April 6 2003
A great short stories of Fairy Tales for adults.Wonderfully intertaning and an enlighting read.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Anthologies are often difficult...
...but I found this book overall to be good. I particularly liked 'The Match Girl' (and have since found all of Anne Bishops books to be great! Read more
Published on Sep 17 2002 by Kara Cox

3.0 out of 5 stars Not my favorite
I didn't like this as much as _Black Thorn, White Rose_ or _Black Heart, Ivory Bones_, but it wasn't bad. Read more
Published on Dec 8 2001 by Kelly L. (www.FantasyLiteratur...

5.0 out of 5 stars Gorgeous writing in the Angela Carter tradition
All of the books in the Datlow-Windling "adult fairy tales" series are gorgeous but this is my favorite of them all, containing such splendid works as "The... Read more
Published on Nov 19 2000

4.0 out of 5 stars As Good As The Ones Before It
I read two of the series before I read this one and it lives up to the standards of the others. As in the other books, the stories range from dark to humorous. Read more
Published on Sep 6 2000 by AllieKat

4.0 out of 5 stars You get the good with the bad, but overall it's fantastic
As with any collection of short stories, every author has a different style. And you're not going to nessecarily like every style, but that comes with the territory. Read more
Published on Jun 1 2000 by Sara

4.0 out of 5 stars Better then Black Thorn...
This is the third book released from these editors. I truly adored the first one, particuarly the story from Neil Gaiman (who wasn't very popular at the time). Read more
Published on Jun 2 1999 by ladyshaper

5.0 out of 5 stars Writing as Rich as Rubies, as Dark as Death
"Ruby Slippers, Golden Tears" is the third book in a series of short story volumes edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling, all inspired by classic fairy tales. Read more
Published on Mar 27 1998

5.0 out of 5 stars Fairy Tales Redux, and Very well done
This is the third volume in editors Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling's series of classic fairy tales that are re-interpreted by some of our best authors. Read more
Published on Mar 27 1998 by johnglor94

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