@article{800272,
      recid = {800272},
      author = {Maguire, Gregory, and Hoffmann, E. T. A.},
      title = {Hiddensee : a tale of the once and future Nutcracker /},
      pages = {xi, 287 pages ;},
      abstract = {"Having brought his legions of devoted readers to Oz in  Wicked and to Wonderland in After Alice, Maguire now takes  us to the realms of the Brothers Grimm and E. T. A.  Hoffmann--the enchanted Black Forest of Bavaria and the  salons of Munich. Hiddensee imagines the backstory of the  Nutcracker, revealing how this entrancing creature came to  be carved and how he guided an ailing girl named Klara  through a dreamy paradise on a Christmas Eve. At the heart  of Hoffmann's mysterious tale hovers Godfather  Drosselmeier--the ominous, canny, one-eyed toy maker made  immortal by Petipa and Tchaikovsky's fairy tale ballet--who  presents the once and future Nutcracker to Klara, his  goddaughter. But Hiddensee is not just a retelling of a  classic story. Maguire discovers in the flowering of German  Romanticism ties to Hellenic mystery-cults--a fascination  with death and the afterlife--and ponders a profound  question: How can a person who is abused by life,  shortchanged and challenged, nevertheless access secrets  that benefit the disadvantaged and powerless? Ultimately,  Hiddensee offers a message of hope. If the compromised  Godfather Drosselmeier can bring an enchanted Nutcracker to  a young girl in distress on a dark winter evening, perhaps  everyone, however lonely or marginalized, has something  precious to share."--Jacket.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/800272},
}