Matchless: A Christmas Story (signed)

Maguire, Gregory

ISBN 10: 0061913014 / ISBN 13: 9780061913013

Published by William Morrow / HarperCollins, New York, 2009

About this Item

Second printing. Signed by author on title page. Remainder mark on top edge, else near fine. DJ fine. "An Illumination of Hans Christian Andersen's classic 'The Little Match Girl'".

Seller Inventory # 004808

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Matchless: A Christmas Story (signed)
• Publisher: William Morrow / HarperCollins, New York
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0061913014
• ISBN 13: 9780061913013
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Young Adult
  • Christmas

About this title

Synopsis

The best-selling author of the Wicked Years series reimagines the Hans Christian Anderson tale "The Little Match Girl," intertwining the title character's tale with that of Frederik, whose own yearnings are a catalyst for a better future for himself and his family, in a book that suggests transcendence and the permanence of spirit. 150,000 first printing.

From the Back Cover

Every year, NPR asks a writer to compose an original story with a Christmas theme. In 2008, Gregory Maguire reinvented the Hans Christian Andersen classic "The Little Match Girl" for a new time and new audiences.

When it was first translated from Danish and published in England in the mid-nineteenth century, audiences likely interpreted the Little Match Girl's dying visions of lights and a grandmother in heaven as metaphors of religious salvation. Maguire's new piece, entitled "Matchless," reilluminates Andersen's classic, using his storytelling magic to rekindle Andersen's original intentions, and to suggest transcendence, the permanence of spirit, and the continuity that links the living and the dead.