{"product_id":"a-wild-swan-by-michael-cunningham-9780008140403","title":"A Wild Swan","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHere are the moments that our fairy tales forgot or deliberately concealed, reimagined by one of the most gifted storytellers of his generation, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of \u003cem\u003eThe Hours\u003c\/em\u003e, and exquisitely illustrated by Yuko Shimizu. Rarely have our bedtime stories been this dark, this perverse, or this true.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe Beast stands ahead of you in line at the convenience store, buying smokes and a Slim Jim, his devouring smile aimed at the cashier. A malformed little man with a knack for minor acts of wizardry goes to disastrous lengths to procure a child. A loutish and lazy Jack prefers living in his mother's basement to getting a job, until the day he trades a cow for a handful of magic beans.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eA Wild Swan and Other Tales\u003c\/em\u003e, the people and the talismans of lands far, far away — the mythic figures of our childhoods and the source of so much of our wonder — are transformed by Michael Cunningham into stories of sublime revelation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Arotahi Agency","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46529543995628,"sku":"9780008140403","price":23.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/24323933482190.jpg?v=1749221539","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.pro\/products\/a-wild-swan-by-michael-cunningham-9780008140403","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}