The Girl with Glass Feet - Hardcover

Shaw, Ali

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1843549182 ISBN 13: 9781843549185

Publisher: Atlantic Books, 2009

Synopsis

The Girl with Glass Feet:

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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

From the Author:

Ali Shaw was born in 1982 and grew up in a small town in Dorset. He graduated from Lancaster University with a first class degree in English Literature and has since worked as a bookseller and at Oxford's Bodleian Library. He is currently writing his second novel.

About this edition

• Publisher: Atlantic Books
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1843549182
• ISBN 13: 9781843549185
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 304