The Wood Wife Novel By Terri Windling

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The wood wife novel by terri windling. Terri windling is a writer editor artist and passionate advocate of fantasy literature. It won the mythopoeic award for novel of the year. Windling draws on myth folklore poetry and the history of surrealist art to tell the s. Leaving behind her fashionable west coast life maggie black comes to the southwestern desert to pursue her passion and he dreams.

A mythopoeic fantasy award winning masterpiece by a nine time winner of the world fantasy award terri windling s the wood wife returns to print in a tor essentials edition. Leaving behind her fashionable west coast life maggie black comes to the southwestern desert to pursue her passion and her dream. Her heart that traitorous organ still leapt when she saw her ex husband through the window glass. Set in the mountain outskirts of contemporary tucson arizona the novel could equally be described as magical realism contemporary fantasy or mythic fiction.

The wood wife davis cooper. Instead she places them in a heady mix of magic mystery and suspense to produce a spectacular fantasy. Her mentor the acclaimed poet davis cooper has mysteriously died in the canyons east of tucson bequeathing her his estate and the mystery of his life and death. Nigel came down the street toward her his face shadowed with annoyance.

She has won six world fantasy awards for her editorial work and the mythopoeic award for her novel the wood wife. What makes terri windling s novel the wood wife so good. It is windling s first novel. The wood wife is a novel by american writer terri windling published by tor books in 1996.

The wood wife by terri windling release date. She presents a believable and subtly observed cast of characaters which could form the basis of an interesting novel if set in a mundane world.