The Wood Wife Novel By Terri Windling

Her mentor the acclaimed poet davis cooper has mysteriously died in the canyons east of tucson bequeathing her his estate and the mystery of his life and death.

The wood wife novel by terri windling.

The wood wife davis cooper. The wood wife by terri windling release date. Nigel was a hard act to follow. 1 1996 distinctive contemporary fantasy set in the arizona desert from the well known editor the annual year s best fantasy and horror with ellen datlow etc.

Windling draws on myth folklore poetry and the history of surrealist art to tell the s. It is windling s first novel. Nigel came down the street toward her his face shadowed with annoyance. Leaving behind her fashionable west coast life maggie black comes to the southwestern desert to pursue her passion and he dreams.

Leaving behind her fashionable west coast life maggie black comes to the southwestern desert to pursue her passion and her dream. A mythopoeic fantasy award winning masterpiece by a nine time winner of the world fantasy award terri windling s the wood wife returns to print in a tor essentials edition. It won the mythopoeic award for novel of the year. What makes terri windling s novel the wood wife so good.

Set in the mountain outskirts of contemporary tucson arizona the novel could equally be described as magical realism contemporary fantasy or mythic fiction. Her heart that traitorous organ still leapt when she saw her ex husband through the window glass. Instead she places them in a heady mix of magic mystery and suspense to produce a spectacular fantasy. She has won six world fantasy awards for her editorial work and the mythopoeic award for her novel the wood wife.

She presents a believable and subtly observed cast of characaters which could form the basis of an interesting novel if set in a mundane world. She is better known as a longtime editor of fantasy and speculative fiction.