Michael Cunningham

"The Meeks brothers travel down different paths in search for transcendence. Barrett, haunted by a vision of light, turns unexpectedly to religion. Tyler grows increasingly convinced that only drugs can release his creative powers"--

"Fairy tales for our times from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Hours A poisoned apple and a monkey's paw with the power to change fate; a girl whose extraordinarily long hair causes catastrophe; a man with one human arm and one swan's wing; and a house deep in the forest, constructed of gumdrops and gingerbread, vanilla frosting and boiled sugar. In A Wild Swan and Other Tales, the people and the talismans of lands far, far away--the mythic...