The Wood Wife Novel By Terri Windling

It won the mythopoeic award for novel of the year.

The wood wife novel by terri windling. Leaving behind her fashionable west coast life maggie black comes to the southwestern desert to pursue her passion and he dreams. The wood wife davis cooper. Set in the mountain outskirts of contemporary tucson arizona the novel could equally be described as magical realism contemporary fantasy or mythic fiction. 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.

The wood wife is a novel by american writer terri windling published by tor books in 1996. Nigel came down the street toward her his face shadowed with annoyance. She is better known as a longtime editor of fantasy and speculative fiction. It is windling s first novel.

Terri windling is a writer editor artist and passionate advocate of fantasy literature. Leaving behind her fashionable west coast life maggie black comes to the southwestern desert to pursue her passion and her dream. 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. Nigel was a hard act to follow.

Instead she places them in a heady mix of magic mystery and suspense to produce a spectacular fantasy. She knew then why she d run back to los angeles away from the nice man up north who said he loved her. What makes terri windling s novel the wood wife so good. She has won six world fantasy awards for her editorial work and the mythopoeic award for her novel the wood wife.

Windling draws on myth folklore poetry and the history of surrealist art to tell the s. The wood wife by terri windling release date.