Daydreams of Angels
- Author Heather O'Neill
- Narrator Kevin Kenerly, various narrators, Erin Moon, Lauren Ezzo, Lisa Flanagan, Neil Hellegers, Paul Woodson, Chelsea Stephens
- Publisher Blackstone Publishing
- Publish Date 24 April 2021
- Run Time 8 hours and 44 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Short stories.
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What to expect
Inventive, outlandish, and tender fairy tales from bestselling author Heather O’Neill
The fantastic has always been at the edges of Heather O’Neill’s work. In her bestselling novels The Lonely Hearts Hotel, Lullabies for Little Criminals and The Girl Who Was Saturday Night, she transforms the shabbiest streets of Montreal with her beautiful, freewheeling metaphors. She describes the smallest of things—a stray cat or a secondhand coat—with an intensity that makes them otherworldly.
In Daydreams of Angels, O’Neill’s first collection of short stories, she gives free rein to her imaginative gifts. In “Swan Lake for Beginners,” generations of Nureyev clones live out their lives in a grand Soviet experiment. In “The Holy Dove Parade,” a teenage cult follower writes a letter to explain the motivation behind her crime. And in another tale, a grandmother reveals where babies come from: the beach, where young mothers-to-be hunt for infants in the surf. Each of these beguiling stories twists the beloved narratives of childhood—fairy tales, fables, Bible parables—to uncover the deepest truths of family life.
Critics Review
“Keep this collection on the nightstand, and you’ll be sure to kick your dreamscape up a notch.”
“Gypsy violinists, bears on bicycles, artists washed up on a desert island—she could marry a walrus, who would be dependable, but would it be a loveless union?—populate O’Neill’s strange but irresistible fables and fairy tales for adults…O’Neill is a wondrous writer whose clean declarative sentences push the stories forward. She also has an astonishing gift for metaphor, which she mines as if she has struck the mother lode. The strength of this collection is not just the stories’ delectable absurdity but also their wisdom.”
“These sharp stories from Giller shortlister Heather O’Neill—sometimes disturbing, sometimes very funny—put her in a league with [Canada’s] best writers…The storytelling is inventive, but the writing is as spectacular: the squeak of sneakers in a gym sounds like someone writing curse words with magic marker, a parachute opening resembles a kernel of corn popping, a woman’s voice sounds like she’s been eating sugared doughnuts. These are great stories superbly written by someone sure to be a major star.”
| Author | Heather O'Neill |
|---|---|
| Narrator | Kevin Kenerly, various narrators, Erin Moon, Lauren Ezzo, Lisa Flanagan, Neil Hellegers, Paul Woodson, Chelsea Stephens |
| Duration | 8 hours and 44 minutes |
| Release Date | |
| ISBN | 9781665049047 |
| Format | Audiobook |
| Publisher | Blackstone Publishing |
| Genre | Short stories |
| Availability | US |
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