These Children Who Come at You with Knives, and Other Fairy Tales

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These Children Who Come at You with Knives, and Other Fairy Tales
By Jim Knipfel

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Simon & Schuster, June 2010
Trade Paperback, 256 pages
ISBN-10: 1439154120
ISBN-13: 9781439154120

>From the irresistibly droll mind of Jim Knipfel comes These Children
Who Come at You with Knives, and Other Fairy Tales, a series of
twisted fables that echo with pinpoint acuity. A masterful storyteller
whose memoirs and novels have earned him widespread acclaim, this is
Knipfel's first foray into the short story, and he delivers in spades:
this wickedly dark satire on the notion of happily ever after turns
the traditional fairy tale on its head. Among the array of lonely
losers wallowing in discontent, the enterprising reader of this volume
may meet a talking chicken who learns the world has little patience
for intelligence, a foul-mouthed gnome set on world domination, and a
magical snowman wrestling with the horror of being alive. In These
Children Who Come at You with Knives, Knipfel's singular and
brilliantly funny mind reinvents the bedtime story and offers up a
wildly entertaining meditation on the perils of human nature.

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