Cloud & Ashes

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Winner of the Tiptree Award and a Mythopoeic Award finalist, Cloud & Ashes is a slow whirlwind of language, a button box of words, a mythic fable that invites revisitation.Praise for Cloud & Ashes:“A rich poetic prose laden with fetching archaisms that's unlike anything else being written today. Brilliant and truly innovative fiction, not to be missed.”—The Washington TimesGreer Gilman is the author of Moonwise. A graduate of Wellesley and the University of Cambridge, she lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She likes to quip that she does everything James Joyce ever did, only backward and in high heels.

Classics —Fantasy Historical Literary Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology Fiction

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589 printed pages

Original publication: 2009
Publication year: 2009

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Ирина Осипенкоhas quoted3 years ago
"I have read no little of the stars; but I know not this constellation."

"Ah, it stands not in the heavens, but the heart. Did I not say the sky is written in our souls? In our cosmography?” He traced the inlay of the cabinet, the flowers and the fruit of wood. “I have heard a nightingale in Lune, but long ago. In Gallwood, in the fellows’ grove.” He looked far inward, reminiscent. “Quis quis quis, it sings; and, Cuius? Cuius? cries the owl."

Then shaking off his melancholy, smiling, he unlocked the inmost door.

"But here..."
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