The Girl With Glass Feet - Hardcover

Shaw, Ali

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0805091149 ISBN 13: 9780805091144

Publisher: Henry Holt & Co, 2010

Synopsis

An inventive and richly visual novel about young lovers on a quest to find a cure for a magical ailment, perfect for readers of Alice Hoffman

Strange things are happening on the remote and snowbound archipelago of St. Hauda’s Land. Unusual winged creatures flit around the icy bogland, albino animals hide themselves in the snow-glazed woods, and Ida Maclaird is slowly turning into glass. Ida is an outsider in these parts, a mainlander who has visited the islands only once before. Yet during that one fateful visit the glass transformation began to take hold, and now she has returned in search of a cure.

Midas Crook is a young loner who has lived on the islands his entire life. When he meets Ida, something about her sad, defiant spirit pierces his emotional defenses. As Midas helps Ida come to terms with her affliction, she gradually unpicks the knots of his heart. Love must be paid in precious hours and, as the glass encroaches, time is slipping away fast. Will they find a way to stave off the spread of the glass?

The Girl with Glass Feet is a dazzlingly imaginative and magical first novel, a love story to treasure.

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Review:

"Fantastically imagined.... The hybrid form of the book-fairy tale, myth, psychological realism and fantasy-impresses. But Shaw's most delightful offerings are the vivid details he provides to make the magical real.... As Ida turns to glass, Midas must continue his own transformation, from hardened to human. The end of the book, saturated with color and emotion, is risky and brave like the message it imparts. Only a heart of glass would be unmoved."-Robin Romm, "New York"" Times Book Review""Ali Shaw has created a memorable addition to [the] fabulist pantheon in his gorgeous first novel, "The Girl with Glass Feet."... Over the course of this eerie, bewitching novel, the mixture of love and grief and the imminence of death become as memorable as Ida's mysterious, dreadful transformation and Midas's more achingly human one ... Shaw acknowledges the influence of writers like Andersen, Kafka and Borges (Shaw's menagerie of perfectly detailed, marve

Book Description:

The Girl with Glass Feet is an enthralling and eerie fairytale, a first novel of remarkable and original imagination, for all those who fell in love with The Time Traveller's Wife and The Memory Keeper's Daughter. Read it and be cast under its spell...

About this edition

• Publisher: Henry Holt & Co
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0805091149
• ISBN 13: 9780805091144
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 287