Beauty
One of the most popular and provocative new voices in speculative fiction has transformed the fairy tale of Sleeping Beauty into a wry look at the real world. Captured by time-travellers just as she is about to fall asleep, Beauty winds up a 90's co-ed and discovers that despite technological...
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One of the most popular and provocative new voices in speculative fiction has transformed the fairy tale of Sleeping Beauty into a wry look at the real world. Captured by time-travellers just as she is about to fall asleep, Beauty winds up a 90's co-ed and discovers that despite technological changes, beauty is destroyed everywhere.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780385419406 (0385419406)
Publish date: July 1st 1991
Publisher: Broadway Books
Pages no: 420
Edition language: English
I loved this book. As a fan of fairytales, I love the way she weaves it together and the underlying message, brilliant!
This is easily one of the weirdest books I've ever read. And to be honest, I want to shake Sheri Tepper and scream "What the hell was that?!"The protagonist is Sleeping Beauty (who escapes her curse, narrowly) who is the mother of Cinderella, who is the mother of Snow White. There are a few other...
A classic work of fantasy well deserving of it's place in the Fantasy Masterworks series.I have never read anything by this author before and was pleasantly suprised by her delightful prose and the vastness of her imagination. This is not conventional fantasy quest story but follows in the fantasy t...
Wow, this one could have come straight from the fever-dreams of Andrea Dworkin. What starts out as an interesting variant of the Sleeping Beauty tale soon changes into a truly horrifying dystopian screed against humanity, particularly the male wing of same. I got about 220 pages in when I had to sta...
This is a very hard book in some ways. The first couple of chapters are very difficult to make it through. Yet if you can, please continue. It gets so much better and it is a wonderful feeling to have finished this book. Very worth a read.
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