Silence is required for Eliza to save her brothers, for example, but in the AIDS half of the tale, silence - failure to speak up about an unspeakable disease - means death. Kerr falters only at the end, when the parallels between the tales seem to slip away. Meanwhile Eliza, in alternating chapters, must work in desperate silence, weaving jackets from stinging nettles to save her brothers.īoth stories are extremely sad and depressing, and yet wonderfully evocative of the joy of life. Another curse, and of course this one’s never been lifted. See the complete Timeless Fairy Tales series book list in order, box sets or omnibus editions, and companion titles. Shea includes books Beauty and the Beast, The Wild Swans, Cinderella and the Colonel, and several more. But it is also the time of AIDS, the plague that caused the death of many homosexual men before they knew what was happening. The Timeless Fairy Tales book series by K.M. Its based on the fairy tale of the Wild Swans by Hans Christian Andersen. 81 Painter and the Wild Swans, The (Clement), 114-15 Parcel of Patterns. In Manhattan in 1981, a young gay teenager, banished from home, luckily meets someone who saves him from a life on the streets. Fran, 245 Orwell, George, 231-32 O'Shea, Pat, 222-23 Othello (Shakespeare). The second, far more grounded in reality, includes only a hint that magic is real. The first, taking place in 1689, is a retelling of the fairy tale about a young girl whose eleven brothers, cursed by their stepmother, must spend their daylight hours as swans. THE WILD SWANS is a retelling of the German Six Swans fairytale and the Dutch Wild Swans fairytale. In this long fantasy novel, two stories are told in one.
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