The Rose and The Beast: Fairy Tales Retold
With language that is both lyrical and distinctly her own, Francesca Lia Block turns nine fairy tales inside out.Escaping the poisoned apple, Snow frees herself from possession to find the truth of love in an unexpected place.A club girl from L.A., awakening from a long sleep to the memories of...
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With language that is both lyrical and distinctly her own, Francesca Lia Block turns nine fairy tales inside out.Escaping the poisoned apple, Snow frees herself from possession to find the truth of love in an unexpected place.A club girl from L.A., awakening from a long sleep to the memories of her past, finally finds release from its curse.And Beauty learns that Beasts can understand more than men.Within these singular, timeless landscapes, the brutal and the magical collide, and the heroine triumphs because of the strength she finds in a pen, a paintbrush, a lover, a friend, a mother, and finally, in herself.Best Children's Books 2000 (PW)Books for the Teen Age 2001 (NYPL)
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780060281298 (0060281294)
Publish date: September 19th 2000
Publisher: Joanna Cotler Books
Pages no: 229
Edition language: English
The first story is called Snow, and is a touching retelling of Snow White that is more about found families than anything, although it touches upon a common theme in Lia Block’s work: the outcasts, those who don’t fit into society as most people view it. The freaks, as she puts it in this story. ...
Not quite a solid four stars, but good enough to rate it thus. I think the best word to sum up these fairy tale retellings is bittersweet. The author's style of writing was absolutely beautiful. Her choice of words and descriptions were entrancing and not at all standard. She is quite blasé about th...
More Francesca Lia Block's fractured fairy tales. Somewhat uneven but the better ones are good imo.
See Purplecookie's review for some reasons I disliked this:http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/110026268The tales were not all that inventive, the writing was so spare that the stories were dry and never created a fully realized world or characters in any of the brief retellings. All the stories ha...
9 years ago
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