In the Forest of Forgetting

by Theodora Goss

Overview

"It doesn't seem too hasty to exclaim, 'Classic!'" —Booklist, starred review

 

"An original voice, and an original vision: crystalline, precise, mordant and devastating." —Ellen Kushner.

 

A Mythopoeic Award finalist

 

Mythic Delirim Books is proud to make World Fantasy Award and Locus Award winner Theodora Goss's 2006 story collection In the Forest of Forgetting available in electronic format. With an introduction by Terri Windling, this book gathers sixteen tales from an author that Locus at the time dubbed "one of the more distinctive, graceful, and haunting new voices in fantasy."

 

Cover art by Virginia Lee.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940163975303
Publisher:	Mythic Delirium Books
Publication date:	04/09/2020
Sold by:	Draft2Digital
Format:	eBook
File size:	459 KB

Editorial Reviews

Goss's collection of 16 gothic stories possesses a spare, surprising beauty, though her modern-day characters, like those in fairy tales, are constrained by the hard lessons she sets out to teach. The three linked stories, "Miss Emily Gray," "Conrad" and "Lessons with Miss Gray," turn on the character of the title, a dark Mary Poppins-like woman who exists to grant children their hearts' desires-often at a high price. Goss layers the Victorian tone and everyday magic of these tales with commentary on familial negotiations and the grave consequences for heedless behavior. Other stories consider family cohesion and snobbery, as in "Sleeping with Bears," about a Southern belle who exhibits "no originality" until she marries a bear named Trout Catcher. Her sister quickly comes to understand the attraction. In "Lily, with Clouds," a bohemian woman dying of cancer returns to her blue-blooded family in Virginia, where her conventional sister can't help judging her unusual life. Though Goss (The Rose in Twelve Petals and Other Stories) crafts these delicate stories with tight control and wit, in toto they become something of a moral sledgehammer. (Aug.) Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.

Publishers Weekly

A young princess willingly meets her fate in "The Rose in Twelve Petals," while in "Conrad," a young man realizes his family is not what he thinks it is. The 17 tales in this collection (some original to this volume) by World Fantasy Award nominee Goss center on the mixture of the magical and the mundane, the world of today and the world of fairy tales. Gracefully written and elegantly styled, these stories are recommended for most fantasy collections. Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.

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