White Cat Black Dog Stories Kelly Link by Kelly Link 9780593449967, 0593449967 instant download after payment.

Seven ingeniously reinvented fairy tales that play out with astonishing consequences in the modern world, from one of today's finest short story writers - MacArthur Genius Grant Fellow Kelly Link, bestselling author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist Get in Trouble

“Fans of Station Eleven, speculative fiction or simply anyone who needs a brief escape from the hard, cold world will find the prose here magically transporting.”  -  Salon

Finding seeds of inspiration in the Brothers Grimm, seventeenth-century French lore, and Scottish ballads, Kelly Link spins classic fairy tales into utterly original stories of seekers - characters on the hunt for love, connection, revenge, or their own sense of purpose.

In "The White Cat's Divorce," an aging billionaire sends his three sons on a series of absurd goose chases to decide which will become his heir. In "The Girl Who Did Not Know Fear," a professor with a delicate health condition becomes stranded for days in an airport hotel after a conference, desperate to get home to her wife and young daughter, and in acute danger of being late for an appointment that cannot be missed. In "Skinder's Veil," a young man agrees to take over a remote house-sitting gig for a friend. But what should be a chance to focus on his long-avoided dissertation instead becomes a wildly unexpected journey, as the house seems to be a portal for otherworldly travellers - or perhaps a door into his own mysterious psyche.

“There are, of course, other authors adept at blending the real and the unreal, but there may well be no one who does it as impressively as Link.”  -  The Boston Globe

Twisting and winding in astonishing ways, expertly blending realism and the speculative, witty, empathetic, and never-predictable - these stories remind us once again of why Kelly Link is incomparable in the art of short fiction.