xo Orpheus

xo Orpheus

2013 • 577 pages

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Fifty leading writers retell myths from around the world in this follow-up to the bestselling My mother she killed me, my father he ate me. "Icarus flies once more. Aztec jaguar gods again stalk the earth. An American soldier designs a new kind of Trojan horse--his cremains in a bullet. Here ... are your favorite mythological figures--Daedalus and Icarus, Narcissus and Echo, Orpheus and Eurydice, Pygmalion and Galatea, even Argos, Odysseus's faithful dog--alongside characters from Indian, Punjabi, Inuit, Aztec, and other traditions"--Page 4 of cover.

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2 primary books

#2 in New Fairy Tales

New Fairy Tales is a 2-book series with 2 primary works first released in 2010 with contributions by Kate Bernheimer.

My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me: Forty New Fairy Tales
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