The Wood Wife By Terri Windling

Set in the mountain outskirts of contemporary tucson arizona the novel could equally be described as magical realism contemporary fantasy or mythic fiction.

The wood wife by terri windling.

She has won six world fantasy awards for her editorial work and the mythopoeic award for her novel the wood wife. About the author terri windling is a writer editor artist and passionate advocate of fantasy literature. The wood wife may satisfy some readers but i found it disappoin as she explores his home and the mysteries of his life and death she begins to suspect that the magic that fills cooper s poems is not allegory but rather reflects the reality of the desert mountains. She knew then why she d run back to los angeles away from the nice man up north who said he loved her.

The wood wife is a novel by american writer terri windling published by tor books in 1996. Nigel was a hard act to follow. Her heart that traitorous organ still leapt when she saw her ex husband through the window glass. Journalist and ex poet maggie black has inherited the estate of pulitzer prize winning poet davis cooper with whom she corresponded for years but never met.

Nigel came down the street toward her his face shadowed with annoyance. It won the mythopoeic award for novel of the year. She is better known as a longtime editor of fantasy and speculative fiction. Free shipping over 10.

It is windling s first novel. Windling draws on myth folklore poetry and the history of surrealist art to tell the s.