Sourdough and Other Stories
Tartarus Press:
North Yorkshire: 2010
First edition, Hardcover, Fine in Near Fine dust jacket,
238 pp.
Cover artwork by: Stephen J. Clark
Jacket with two small (.25 inch) closed tears at upper edge of rear panel. This edition limited to 300 copies. “In the cathedral-city of Lodellan and its uneasy hinterland, babies are fashioned from bread, dolls are given souls and wishes granted may be soon regretted. There are ghosts who dream, men whose wings have been clipped and trolls who long for something other. Love, loss and life are elegantly dissected in Slatter's earthy yet poetic prose. As Rob Shearman says in his Introduction: 'Sourdough and Other Stories manages to be grand and ambitious and worldbuilding-but also as intimate and focused as all good short fiction should be . . . The joy of Angela Slatter's book is that she's given us a set of fairy tales that are at once both new and fresh, and yet feel as old as storytelling itself.'” #44258
Price: $750.00