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'Essential reading for adults of all ages ... the wisest, funniest, most thoughtful thing yet written on the subject of PC' - Observer 'One of those works which cleave an author instantly to your heart ... It is beautiful. It demolishes, in few but elegant words, a dozen kinds of silliness' - Libby Purves 'Hillary and I have been enjoying it ... it's hilarious' - Bill Clinton 'A nightmarish trifle ... modern tales for our life and times' - Financial Times 'The definitive, non-exploitative, non-patriarchalist (dontcha hate doing that to the kids?) ... collection of bedtime stories' - Daily Telegraph

Essential reading for adults of all ages ... the wisest, funniest, most thoughtful thing yet written on the subject of PC * Observer * One of those works which cleave an author instantly to your heart ... It is beautiful. It demolishes, in few but elegant words, a dozen kinds of silliness -- Libby Purves * The Times * Hillary and I have been enjoying it ... it's hilarious -- Bill Clinton A nightmarish trifle ... modern tales for our life and times * Financial Times * The definitive, non-exploitative, non-patriarchalist (dontcha hate doing that to the kids?) ... collection of bedtime stories * Daily Telegraph * Garner rewrites fairy tales ... into culturally sensitive stories, with all prejudices expunged * Daily Mail * Traditional tales carefully re-written to express no opinion at all * Sunday Times * Once upon a time there was a man who thought Little Red Riding Hood was a vertically-challenged but resolute young feminist ... So begins the latest version of the ancient fairy tale, brought up to date for the politically-correct Nineties * Daily Express * Extremely funny ... After one finishes this collection, 'happily ever after' will never seem quite the same * Publishers Weekly * Finn Garner isn't a mere writer, he's a virtuoso, a necromancer, a master of the tour de force - a Hans Nonsectarian Andersen for our very own time ... On every page there is a delight * Washington Post * A reworking of familiar tales in non-sexist, non-patriarchal, non-judgmental language ... I did laugh aloud * Tribune *

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James Finn Garner was born in Detroit and attended the University of Michigan, where he won a Hopwood Award for one of his short plays. He performed comedy in Chicago nightclubs for a number of years and is the author of Politically Correct Bedtime Stories. He lives in Chicago with his wife and children.

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