Dachshund droids, mad crones, shapeshifting children, a plethora of witches, dragonstalkers, familiars, slithering eels and, of course, bats, flit and fly through these pages, aided and abetted by Kathleen Jennings’s deft and inspired pencil drawings.
Stray Bats is a glorious miscellany of vignettes based on poems by Australian women. While some of the pieces hie close to the originals in form and theme, some stray far, far from them even as Lanagan delights in playing with language, rhyme, and rhythm. This could be the perfect gift for that slightly otherworldly person in your life—or for yourself, when you need a moment of magic, a dip into darkness, a spark of light. For the reader who would like to explore further, there are a list of poems that inspired the author and notes on where those poems might be found.
Mục lục
A Wind Age
Kites in the fog
Constellation
Maiden
More Information to Help You Get to Rookwood
Sail Away
Maiden Flight
Stray Bats
Readying
Shrunken Alice
Flight to Loreto
Familiars
Shore
Party to an Invocation
Emplotment
Hag-Hunter
Flight School
The Axe
Win
Foxwife
Being Summoned
Spirit Girl
Dragon Bride
Wyrm-Witch
Ingratitude
Interlacing
Aged Caring
Buff-house Review
Passed Master
Hand Magic
Digs
Getting There
Costumier
Those Women
Unchosen
Kez the Gardener
Tower View
Pounce
Invitations
Rabbit’s Foot
A Small Affair
Spring Visitor
Dormitory
Witches of a Certain Age
To a Mentee
The Evidence
Dragon
Fritzel
Feejee Mermaid
Peeping
Giới thiệu về tác giả
Kathleen Jennings is an illustrator and writer in Brisbane, Australia. She is a Hugo Award finalist and has been shortlisted three times for the World Fantasy Award, has received the E. G. Harvey Award for Australian SF Art, and several Ditmar Awards for professional and fan art. Many of her illustrations and incidental drawings appear on her blog tanaudel.wordpress.com and she tweets @tanaudel.
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