The Wood Wife By Terri Windling

It won the mythopoeic award for novel of the year.

The wood wife by terri windling.

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. Her heart that traitorous organ still leapt when she saw her ex husband through the window glass. 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. About the author terri windling is a writer editor artist and passionate advocate of fantasy literature.

She has won six world fantasy awards for her editorial work and the mythopoeic award for her novel the wood wife. She is better known as a longtime editor of fantasy and speculative fiction. It is windling s first novel. The wood wife is a novel by american writer terri windling published by tor books in 1996.

Set in the mountain outskirts of contemporary tucson arizona the novel could equally be described as magical realism contemporary fantasy or mythic fiction. By terri windling the wood wife 1st first edition hardcover hardcover january 1 1996. Buy a cheap copy of the wood wife book by terri windling. Free shipping over 10.

Nigel came down the street toward her his face shadowed with annoyance. Nigel was a hard act to follow.