The Wood Wife Novel By Terri Windling

Instead she places them in a heady mix of magic mystery and suspense to produce a spectacular fantasy.

The wood wife novel by terri windling.

Nigel was a hard act to follow. Set in the mountain outskirts of contemporary tucson arizona the novel could equally be described as magical realism contemporary fantasy or mythic fiction. Leaving behind her fashionable west coast life maggie black comes to the southwestern desert to pursue her passion and her dream. The wood wife is a novel by american writer terri windling published by tor books in 1996.

Nigel came down the street toward her his face shadowed with annoyance. It is windling s first novel. Her heart that traitorous organ still leapt when she saw her ex husband through the window glass. 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. Terri windling is a writer editor artist and passionate advocate of fantasy literature. 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 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. Windling draws on myth folklore poetry and the history of surrealist art to tell the s. Leaving behind her fashionable west coast life maggie black comes to the southwestern desert to pursue her passion and he dreams.

The wood wife davis cooper. It won the mythopoeic award for novel of the year.