{"product_id":"cloud-ashes-three-winters-tales-9781931520553","title":"Cloud \u0026 Ashes: Three Winter's Tales","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"A book whose hold on your mind  on your memory  is assured. It is a story about story  and stories are what we are all made of. Abandon hope all ye who enter here.\" Paul Kincaid  SF Site \"A work that reads like language stripped bare  myth tracked to its origin.\" Locus \"Sublimely lyrical Jacobeanesque dialect . . . readers who enjoy symbolism and allusion will cherish Gilmans use of diverse folkloric elements to create an unforgettable realm and ideology.\"Publishers Weekly \"Green quince and bletted medlar  quiddany and musk: Greer Gilman fills your mouth with wincing tastes  your ears with crowcalls  knockings and old  old rhythms  your eyes with beautiful and battered creatures  sly-eyed  luminous or cackling as they twine and involute their stories. Gilman writes like no one else. To read her is to travel back  well back  in time; to wander in thrall through mist on moor and fell; to sink up to the nostrils in a glorious bog of legend and language  riddled with bones and iron  sodden with witches blood.\" Margo Lanagan  author of Tender Morsels  \"Greer Gilman is a master of myth and language with few equals in this world. Cloud and Ashes is a triumphant  heart-rending triptych  a mosaic of folklore  intellectual pyrotechnics  and marvelous  motley characters that takes the breath and makes the blood beat faster.\"Catherynne M. Valente  author of In the Night Garden \"No one else writes like Greer Gilman. She is one of our most innovative and important writers  in fantasy or out of it. If you want to see what language can do  the heart-stopping beauty it can achieve  read Cloud \u0026amp; Ashes.\" Theodora Goss  author of In the Forest of Forgetting \"Cloud and Ashes is a dark pastoral shaped from bits of ballads  scraps of nursery rhymes  fragments of Tarot  tatters of ancient myth  and shreds of archaic language  all shot through with luminous ribbons of Gilmans own personal cosmology.... Gilmans prose reminds us that most magical systems locate the power of magic in the power of language itself. Cloud and Ashes is particularly recommended to those readers who enjoy myth and folklore  especially the myths of Ariadne and Persephone. Cloud and Ashes is also highly recommended to those readers who enjoy fantasy which explores language and folklore.\" Green Man Review Gilmans A Crowd of Bone . . . is dense  jammed with archaic words and neologisms . . . but the storycomplex  tangled in narrative as well as syntax  and very darkrewards the most careful of readings.\" The Washington Post Book World I am wind and memory who spells this . . . In the eighteen years since her Crawford Awardwinning debut novel Moonwise  Greer Gilmans writing has only grown more complex and entrancing  more beguiling and inventive. Gilmans second novel  Cloud \u0026amp; Ashes  is a slow whirlwind of language  a button box of words  a mythic Joycean fable that will invite immersion  study  revisitation  and delight. To step into her world is to witness the bright flashes  witty turns  and shadowy corners of the human imagination  limned with all the detail and humor of a master stylist. In Gilmans intricate prose  myth and fable live  breathe  and dance as they do nowhere else. Cloud \u0026amp; Ashes collects three Winters Tales (Jack Daws Pack  A Crowd of Bone  and the longest  Unleaving) centering on folk traditions  harvest rites  the seasons  gods  and trickster figures. In Unleaving  Margaret  granddaughter of a goddess  escapes from the underworld into the human realm  Cloud. She is pursued  and  in escaping  brings about an epochal change  separating the kingdom of myth from the human world. Cloud \u0026amp; Ashes is a work that reaches back to the richness of ShakespeareGilman understands that the depth of Shakespeares work lies in his rangeand the reader will rejoice in her counterplay of high myth and bawdry even while being drawn into the world of Cloud. Inventive  playful  and erudite  Gilman is an archeolexicologist rewriting language itself in these long-awaited tales. Greer Gilman is the author of the novel Moonwise  which won the Crawford Award and was shortlisted for the James Tiptree  Jr. and Mythopoeic awards  as well as of the World Fantasy Awardwinning A Crowd of Bone. She lives in Cambridge  Massachusetts.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45788499476533,"sku":"ByrdShop_1931520550","price":98.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781931520553.jpg?v=1784646631","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/cloud-ashes-three-winters-tales-9781931520553","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}