‘The Reasonable Ogre is a marvel, and a tribute to the power of story. The illustrations and language are so entwined as to be inseparable, and they cast a beautiful spell. Mike Barnes is a real fairy-tale creature.’—Kate Bernheimer, author of Horse, Flower, Bird
In the world of The Reasonable Ogre, magic is nothing if not paradoxical. Ogres can indeed be reasonable, prisons may prove porous, gifts often come disguised as curses, and springs gone dry are only waiting to resurface. At once comic and moving, troubling and restorative, Mike Barnes’s original stories are here to remind us that fairy tales aren’t about the happily-ever-after: they’re about the strange detours we take trying to get there. With seventy drawings from the striking brush of Segbingway.
Mike Barnes is the author of The Lily Pond: A Memoir of Madness, Memory, Myth, and Metamorphosis, two novels, two volumes of poetry, and two short fiction collections.
Segbingway is an artist who lives in Toronto.
Tabla de materias
THE REASONABLE OGRE
Hard Bargains
The Reasonable Ogre
Silver
Moonswoop
The Jailed Wizards
Small Plenties
Neverday: The Grateful Sprites
Wear Me Last
Storyletting
Luscious Dregs
Sloth’s Minions
The Glass Garden
Falling Water
Strange Detours
Grimus the Miser
The King’s Huntsman
The Spigot
Sobre el autor
Mike Barnes: Mike Barnes is the author of
The Lily Pond: A Memoir of Madness, Memory, Myth, and Metamorphosis; two novels (
Catalogue Raisonne and
The Syllabus); two volumes of poetry (
Calm Jazz Sea and
A Thaw Foretold), and two short fiction collections (
Aquarium and
Contrary Angel). His poems have been shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award, and his short fiction for the Danuta Gleed Award. His stories have also appeared twice in Best Canadian Stories, three times in The Journey Prize Anthology, and won the Silver Medal for Fiction at the National Magazine Awards. He lives in Toronto.
Segbingway: Sebingway is an artist who lives in Toronto.
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