An edition of How to Spin Gold: A Woman's Tale (1997)

How to spin gold

a woman's tale

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An edition of How to Spin Gold: A Woman's Tale (1997)

How to spin gold

a woman's tale

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This startling new retelling of the classic Rumpelstiltskin story invites us to experience the power of transformation - the heart of all the best fairytales.

The spinner of the story begins life without a name. As the youngest daughter of an impoverished family, her parents simply never bothered to name her. She is shunned by her village, not only for her namelessness, but for a mysterious trinity of identifying marks: a moon-shape on her left cheek, a shortened left leg, and a left eye that has no color. Only Aurelie, the miller's cherished daughter, sees past the goblin strangeness of "the girl with the silver eye" to her core of power and strength.

Embittered and defiant, our narrator decides to leave everything she knows and throw herself at the mercy of the wild. There she finds the Wise Woman of the Western Wood, revered for her healing skills but feared as a witch. She becomes her reluctant apprentice, hoping that this enigmatic figure has the power to reveal her true name and identity.

Even as she succeeds her teacher as Wise Woman, the narrator's life remains bound in love and jealousy with the beautiful miller's daughter, who so effortlessly wins and scorns all the nameless woman yearns for. When Aurelie renews the bond between them at the hour of her greatest need, we learn the complex truth behind this simple children's tale.

Publish Date
Publisher
Station Hill Arts
Language
English
Pages
176

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Cover of: How to Spin Gold
How to Spin Gold: A Woman's Tale
April 30, 2006, Barrytown Limited
Paperback in English - New Ed edition
Cover of: How to Spin Gold
How to Spin Gold: A Woman's Tale
January 2000, Barrytown/ Station Hill Pr
Paperback in English
Cover of: How to spin gold
How to spin gold: a woman's tale
1997, Station Hill Arts
in English

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Edition Notes

Published in
Barrytown, N.Y

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813/.54
Library of Congress
PS3553.U473 H69 1997

The Physical Object

Pagination
176 p. ;
Number of pages
176

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL1010697M
ISBN 10
1886449120
LCCN
96051167
OCLC/WorldCat
36008593
Library Thing
2070084
Goodreads
781759

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