| Title: |
Fairy Tales - Traditional Stories Retold for Gay Men |
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| Author: |
Peter Cashorali |
| Published by: |
HarperCollins, 1995 |
| ISBN: |
0-06-251308-7 [hardcover, 179 pages] |
In Fairy Tales, Peter Cashorali
artfully contemporizes classic folk and fairy tales in order to give gay
men stories that tell their stories. Adapting the magical and mythic language
of traditional storytelling, he brilliantly addresses the life passages
of gay men. From coming out and learning to trust oneself to "looksism"
and looking for lasting love, middle age and mortality to AIDS, grieving,
and helping others, here are new spins on tales from around the world,
drawing on favorites by Charles Perrault, the Brothers Grimm, Andrew Lang,
Hans Christian Andersen, Italo Calvino, and others. Witty, romantic, and
wonderfully contemporary, these stories feature fairy tale staples such
as fickle princes, talking animals, and inanimate objects with incredible
powers, plus personal trainers, aging boy-toys, a poignant Ugly Duckling,
a movie-mad Hansel, and a Rumpelstiltskin with a riddle about HIV.
Gracefully meeting a need never more urgently felt in
the gay community for stories that charm, comfort, affirm, and tell the
truth, Fairy Tales is night table reading to savor and share.
