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A Wild Winter Swan

Tekijä: Gregory Maguire

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Fiction. Literature. Mythology. HTML: After brilliantly reimagining the worlds of Oz, Wonderland, Dickensian London, and the Nutcracker, the New York Times bestselling author of Wicked turns his unconventional genius to Hans Christian Andersen's "The Wild Swans," transforming this classic tale into an Italian-American girl's poignant coming-of-age story, set amid the magic of Christmas in 1960s New York. Following her brother's death and her mother's emotional breakdown, Laura now lives on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, in a lonely townhouse she shares with her old-world, strict, often querulous grandparents. But the arrangement may be temporary. The quiet, awkward teenager has been getting into trouble at home and has been expelled from her high school for throwing a record album at a popular girl who bullied her. When Christmas is over and the new year begins, Laura may find herself at boarding school in Montreal. Nearly unmoored from reality through her panic and submerged grief, Laura is startled when a handsome swan boy with only one wing lands on her roof. Hiding him from her ever-bickering grandparents, Laura tries to build the swan boy a wing so he can fly home. But the task is too difficult to accomplish herself. Little does Laura know that her struggle to find help for her new friend parallels that of her grandparents, who are desperate for a distant relative's financial aid to save the family store. As he explores themes of class, isolation, family, and the dangerous yearning to be saved by a power greater than ourselves, Gregory Maguire conjures a haunting, beautiful tale of magical realism that illuminates one young woman's heartbreak and hope as she begins the inevitable journey to adulthood. .… (lisätietoja)

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Riff on The Wild Swans. A lonely girl in mid-century New York grapples with loss, anger, and puberty while living wither her Italian grandparents. After she is expelled from school, strange things start happening around the house, including finding a baby owl* in a wall. Later on, she hears something land on her roof...

*Yes, I read this book when the owl was found in the Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree. Synchronicity. (

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tornadox | Feb 14, 2023 |

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This is supposedly a reimagining of Andersen's "The Wild Swans," but I see little resemblance outside of the unexplained appearance of a boy with a swan's wing. The characters are drab, the setting is generic, and the story is underdeveloped. (

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amanda4242 | Aug 4, 2022 |

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Reason Read: #doublebookspin, ROOT
This is another fairy tale retelling by Gregory Maguire. The story of an Italian American girl's coming of age in New York in the sixties, set during Christmas time. I don't think this book held up to the level of Wicked and therefore I would only consider it to be average at best. I did like the reference to the Seven Fishes for Christmas dinner. (

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Kristelh | Jun 30, 2022 |

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Perhaps I put too much of myself into the main character - as a writer who wants little more than to write a fascinating story but feels she has nothing valid to say. I appreciated the new perspective of a fairy tale - what about the person completely outside of the magic - how would they react to the mystery of the story?

The ending felt rushed, but I think I likely was more invested in the potential for growth in Laura that the story was actually intended to be about, which seemed to me to be the necessity to stop living in limbo. (

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HippieLunatic | May 15, 2022 |

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'A Wild Winter Swan' is a retelling of the Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale The Wild Swans. In McGuire's novel the youngest brother, who has one swan wing instead of an arm, lands on a roof in New York City and is rescued by Laura, an Italian-American teenager being raised by her immigrant grandparents. Laura struggles with losing her parents and brother (in different ways), and feels isolated at school because her background is so different from her classmates. Figuring out how to help her wild swan/boy helps her open up and try to connect to classmates and family. Overall it's a very engaging read.

arcadia123 | Nov 11, 2021 |

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Fiction. Literature. Mythology. HTML:

After brilliantly reimagining the worlds of Oz, Wonderland, Dickensian London, and the Nutcracker, the New York Times bestselling author of Wicked turns his unconventional genius to Hans Christian Andersen's "The Wild Swans," transforming this classic tale into an Italian-American girl's poignant coming-of-age story, set amid the magic of Christmas in 1960s New York.
Following her brother's death and her mother's emotional breakdown, Laura now lives on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, in a lonely townhouse she shares with her old-world, strict, often querulous grandparents. But the arrangement may be temporary. The quiet, awkward teenager has been getting into trouble at home and has been expelled from her high school for throwing a record album at a popular girl who bullied her. When Christmas is over and the new year begins, Laura may find herself at boarding school in Montreal.

Nearly unmoored from reality through her panic and submerged grief, Laura is startled when a handsome swan boy with only one wing lands on her roof. Hiding him from her ever-bickering grandparents, Laura tries to build the swan boy a wing so he can fly home. But the task is too difficult to accomplish herself. Little does Laura know that her struggle to find help for her new friend parallels that of her grandparents, who are desperate for a distant relative's financial aid to save the family store.

As he explores themes of class, isolation, family, and the dangerous yearning to be saved by a power greater than ourselves, Gregory Maguire conjures a haunting, beautiful tale of magical realism that illuminates one young woman's heartbreak and hope as she begins the inevitable journey to adulthood.

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