A cathedral of myth and bone
Howard, Kat2018
Books
Find it!
In these sixteen exquisite stories Kat Howard deftly weaves in and out of the countries of myth and hagiography to write the lives of women untold and unexplored. A woman being written into her boyfriend’s fiction is at first flattered to be his muse, but then finds her real life literally consumed and overtaken by his. A desperate young woman makes a prayer to the Saint of Sidewalks, but the miracle she receives isn’t what she expected. A painter spies a naked man, crouched by the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, transform into a beautiful white bird and decides to paint him, and becomes involved in his curse. Jeanne, a duelist and a sacred blade for God and Her holy saints, finds that the price of truth is always blood. And in the novella “Once, Future” Howard reimagines the Arthurian romance on a modern college campus as a story that is told, and told again, until the ending is right.
Main title:
A cathedral of myth and bone / stories by Kat Howard.
Author:
Howard, Kat, author
Edition:
First edition.
Imprint:
New York : Saga Press, [2018]©2018
Collation:
xi, 352 pages ; 22 cm.
Contents:
A life in fictions -- The saint of the sidewalks -- Maiden, hunter, beast -- Once, future -- Translatio Corporis -- Dreaming like a ghost -- Murdered sleep -- The speaking bone -- Those are pearls -- All of our past places -- Saints' tide -- Painted birds and shivered bones -- Returned -- The calendar of saints -- The green knight's wife -- Breaking the frame.
ISBN:
9781481492157 (hardback)
Dewey class:
813.6
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
355604
More Information:
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brighton Library | Adult Fiction - General | HOWA | Available |