The Wood Wife Novel By Terri Windling

Her heart that traitorous organ still leapt when she saw her ex husband through the window glass.

The wood wife novel by terri windling.

The wood wife by terri windling release date. Terri windling is a writer editor artist and passionate advocate of fantasy literature. 1 1996 distinctive contemporary fantasy set in the arizona desert from the well known editor the annual year s best fantasy and horror with ellen datlow etc. Her mentor the acclaimed poet davis cooper has mysteriously died in the canyons east of tucson bequeathing her his estate and the mystery of his life and death.

She presents a believable and subtly observed cast of characaters which could form the basis of an interesting novel if set in a mundane world. The wood wife davis cooper. Nigel was a hard act to follow. Leaving behind her fashionable west coast life maggie black comes to the southwestern desert to pursue her passion and he dreams.

Set in the mountain outskirts of contemporary tucson arizona the novel could equally be described as magical realism contemporary fantasy or mythic fiction. Nigel came down the street toward her his face shadowed with annoyance. What makes terri windling s novel the wood wife so good. A mythopoeic fantasy award winning masterpiece by a nine time winner of the world fantasy award terri windling s the wood wife returns to print in a tor essentials edition.

She knew then why she d run back to los angeles away from the nice man up north who said he loved her. It is windling s first novel. The wood wife is a novel by american writer terri windling published by tor books in 1996. Instead she places them in a heady mix of magic mystery and suspense to produce a spectacular fantasy.

Windling draws on myth folklore poetry and the history of surrealist art to tell the s. She is better known as a longtime editor of fantasy and speculative fiction.