{"product_id":"the-slantwise-histories-and-other-alix-e-harrow-9781250345363","title":"The Slantwise Histories and Other Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the award-winning and \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Everlasting\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eStarling\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eHouse\u003c\/i\u003e comes a new fantastical collection of stories about tricksters and ghosts, magics ordinary and spectacular. Alix E. Harrow spins tales never-told and seen just outside the periphery of reality--in the tradition of Angela Carter, Anne Sexton, and Carmen Maria Machado, these hauntingly resonant and defiant stories leap from the page and dance in and out of a history that never was (but could have been) and into a future startingly like our own.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBefore I was a liar I was a historian, which is a kind of storyteller who doesn't make any money and likes footnotes.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e These are stories about the past as it wasn't quite, but might have been, from ancient battlefields all the way up through roadside attractions off I-70. They're about the people caught in the mean jaws of history: the women and workers, the soldiers and mothers, everyone shoved into the margins of the world. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBut these aren't singular tragedies--these are the stories of the ones that got away. The ones who defected and dissented, who broke the rules, who ran and tossed a match behind them. SLANTWISE HISTORIES AND OTHER STORIES collects the best known short fiction of Alix. E. Harrow, including the Hugo-award winning \"A Witch's Guide to Escape: A Practical Compendium of Portal Fantasies\" and for the first time in print, Amazon original titles \"The Six Deaths of the Saint\" and \"The Knight and the Butcherbird\". Updated to reflect the author's preferred editions, \u003ci\u003eSlantwise Histories\u003c\/i\u003e also includes \"The Long Way Up\", \"Roadside Attraction\", \"Mr. Death\", \"The Ransom of Miss Coraline Connelly\", \"The Sycamore and the Sybil\", \"Do Not Look Back, My Lion\", \"The Whisper in the Weld\", \"Dustbaby\", and four all-new short stories.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Alix E. Harrow\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1250345367\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781250345363\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Tordotcom\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/20\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 368\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Alix E. Harrow","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48014407794943,"sku":"9781250345363","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_51fca92e-e578-4fa3-86f6-5269cb1e913c.jpg?v=1767748231","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-slantwise-histories-and-other-alix-e-harrow-9781250345363","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}