My Love, My Love, Or, the Peasant Girl
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780805016598 (0805016597)
Publish date: March 1st 1991
Publisher: Henry Holt & Company
Pages no: 119
Edition language: English
A bitter fairy tale about a young black peasant girl who falls in love with the light-skinned son of a rich man on a Caribbean island, this is the basis of the musical Once on This Island, which softened the story considerably by adding a metafictional frame. Guy's eye on the prices exacted by colo...
I love the Little Mermaid. And I loved that this book was a feminist retelling of the story, without the over-the-topness of the politically correct fairy tales.Christmas of 2004, and I start reading as many books from the approved BC Ministry of Education book list as I can ... preparing for my fi...
20 years ago
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