The Alphabet Stones
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| Rating | : | 4.70 (892 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0988147831 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 228 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-05-19 |
| Language | : | English |
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Pegi Eyers said "Wild Spirits". Ursula Pflug has produced a finely-wrought “coming of age” tale that combines the immediacy of prose-poetry with fantasy fiction. With her lush metaphors and biting humor, Pflug’s narrative and warmth of phrasing imagines a young girl's proximity to the worlds of ancient magic and mythical beings in the wilds of rural Ontario. Deep bonds to the landscape are at the heart of this contemporary fantasy, and the Settler farm folk, hippie sybarites, home-schooled children, poets, teenage runaways and Anishnaabe characters who animate the pages also
. Her novel The Alphabet Stones was published in 2013. She has published over 70 short stories in professional publications in Canada, the U.S., and the U.K. She has published dozens of art and book reviews in Canada and the U.S., and has had several plays professionally produced, one solo-authored (Nobody Likes The Ugly Fish, 1994), and the remainder collaboratively created. Ursula Pflug is author of the critically acclaimed slipstream novel Green Music (2002). Her story collection After
"Quietly beautiful, *The Alphabet Stones* is magical and ethereal yet also deeply evocative of, and grounded, in place." -Jan Thornhill "Ursula Pflug's writing is the kind you want to carry around with you for those days when it feels like you're living in a strange and incomprehensible world." -Mathew Cheney. Like 14 year old Jody, we learn not just the names of trees and stars and birds, but also of "the gate between worlds," a place she stumbles across in a forgotten back pasture, both ordinary and powerfully mysterious. The Alphabet Stones is about three families, one of them supernatural, and how they intertwine-with each other and with the land, a moody eastern Ontario of communes, music festivals and cedar swamps; stony farms and muddy rivers. This is a story about enchantment-how the land enchants us, how we enchant one another-why it's necessary that we do, and dangerous when we don't
Her story collection After the Fires appeared in 2008 and Harvesting The Moon, a new collection, is forthcoming. She has published over 70 short stories in professional publications in Canada, the U.S., and the U.K. She has published dozens of art and book reviews in Canada and the U.S., and has had several plays professionally produced, one solo-authored (Nobody Likes The Ugly Fish, 1994), and the remainder collaboratively created. About the Author Ursula Pflug is author of the critically acclaimed slipstream novel Green Music (2002). She is a Pushcart Prize nominee and has also been shortlisted for the Aurora, the Sunburst, Pulp Press's 3-Day Novel, Descant's Novella Contest, and many more. Currently, she edits short fiction for The Link and teaches creative writing with a fo