The Wood Wife By Terri Windling

Nigel came down the street toward her his face shadowed with annoyance.

The wood wife by terri windling.

Her heart that traitorous organ still leapt when she saw her ex husband through the window glass. Buy a cheap copy of the wood wife book by terri windling. It won the mythopoeic award for novel of the year. By terri windling the wood wife 1st first edition hardcover hardcover january 1 1996.

The wood wife may satisfy some readers but i found it disappoin as she explores his home and the mysteries of his life and death she begins to suspect that the magic that fills cooper s poems is not allegory but rather reflects the reality of the desert mountains. Free shipping over 10. She is better known as a longtime editor of fantasy and speculative fiction. About the author terri windling is a writer editor artist and passionate advocate of fantasy literature.

Journalist and ex poet maggie black has inherited the estate of pulitzer prize winning poet davis cooper with whom she corresponded for years but never met. It is windling s first novel. She knew then why she d run back to los angeles away from the nice man up north who said he loved her. The wood wife davis cooper.

Set in the mountain outskirts of contemporary tucson arizona the novel could equally be described as magical realism contemporary fantasy or mythic fiction. Nigel was a hard act to follow.