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A novel as weird and wonderful as we would expect from the author of FLYING LEAP: the story of four generations of powerful women, from an eastern European shtetl to an eastern seaboard metropolis, and what they do in the name of love.
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In If I Told You Once, Judy Budnitz weaves all the elements of classic storytelling into a novel that is dark and delicious. The novel tells the story of four generations of women, Ilana, Sashie, Mara and Nomie. Ilana starts their story by describing her life in an Eastern European village "where someone had forgotten to use colour." It may be a grey place but it is full of magical adventure and terror. Timber wolves roam, handsome captains tempt young girls and forest spirits fall in love with mortal women and bring "a crown of hemlock and mistletoe, a wedding veil of spider webs" and a rough tongue "that nudged its way up her legs, creeping upward to help itself to the thing she was saving for her future husband" as bridal gifts. Even when Ilana leaves her village for shiny America, the forest and its dark magic come too. Her daughter Sashie is entranced by movie stars and ashy cleanliness. Sashie's daughter grows as bitter and twisted as an ingrown hair from jealousy and it is Nomie, the great-granddaughter, that must try and become a conduit between the past and the future, a living bridge of hope.
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While writers like Perrault and the Brothers Grimm gave us such tasty morsels as Sleeping Beauty, Red Riding Hood and Bluebeard, contemporary authors like Angela Carter, Caroline Duffy and Margaret Atwood have had other uses for enchantment--subversive, sly and wickedly witty usages. Fairy tales are so alluring because they are food and drink to the imagination and the spirit--"the meat of the tongue"--as Marina Warner so enicingly describes in From the Beast to the Blonde. Startling, seductive and unsettling, Budnitz has created a magically modern tale. --Eithne Farry
"Wonderfully wrought, with language as simple and straightforward as a fable, alive with a stunning metaphorical quality." --New York Newsday
"Nothing less than a tour de force." --The Forward
"Mesmerizing...This is a definite read for anyone bored by traditional tales." --Seventeen
"A bold first novel....A powerful telling of the immigrant experience." --The Los Angeles Times
"Splendid...If there is any complaint to be made, it is that the novel ends too soon and the reader is forced to close the covers and drift back into reality." --San Diego Union-Tribune
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- PublisherPicador
- Publication date2000
- ISBN 10 0312267517
- ISBN 13 9780312267513
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages308
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