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Fairy tales for our times from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Time. A poisoned apple and a monkey's paw with the power to change fate; a woman whose extraordinarily long locks causes catastrophe; a man with one individuals arm and one swan's wing; and a house deep in the forest, made of gumdrops and gingerbread, vanilla frosting and boiled sugars. In A Crazy Swan along with other Tales, people and the talismans of lands far, a long way away - the mythic characters of your childhoods and the source of so much of our question - are changed by Michael Cunningham into experiences of sublime revelation. Here are the moments our fairy tales forgot or intentionally hidden: the years after having a spell is shattered, the rapturous instant of any miracle unexpectedly recognized, or the fate of any prince only half cured of any curse. The Beast stands ahead of you in-line at the convenience store, buying smokes and a Slim Jim, his devouring smile targeted at the cashier. A malformed little man with a knack for minor serves of wizardry would go to disastrous measures to procure a kid. A loutish and sluggish Jack prefers residing in his mother's cellar to obtaining a job, until the day he trades a cow for a small number of magic beans. Re-imagined by one of the most gifted storytellers of his generation, our bedtime experiences been this dark, this perverse, or this true. Program is made up of music composed designed for the audiobook by Billy Hough and his bandmates in GarageDogs. Billy Hough says: "The original piece 'A Crazy Swan' was written as a gift to Michael, due to my extremely strong a reaction to reading these beautiful experiences for the first time. I enlisted the great Lili Taylor to alternate the experiences beside me, and wrote a series of short pieces of music, because of their eventual inclusion upon this album. I needed to utilize the music to illustrate the tension between the ancient and the present day, much just as Michael did in the experiences themselves."
