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Beauty : A Novel
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Beauty : A Novel Paperback - 1991

by Tepper, Sheri S

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  • Title Beauty : A Novel
  • Author Tepper, Sheri S
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 420
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Crown Publishing Group, The, New York, New York, U.S.A.
  • Date 1991-07-01
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 11343843-6
  • ISBN 9780385419406 / 0385419406
  • Weight 1.21 lbs (0.55 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.54 x 5.56 x 1 in (21.69 x 14.12 x 2.54 cm)
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 90022305
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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Summary

With the critically acclaimed novels The Gate To Women's Country, Raising The Stones, and the Hugo-nominated Grass, Sheri Tepper has established herself as one of the major science fiction writers of out Time. In Beauty, she broadens her territory even further, with a novel that evokes all the richness of fairy tale and fable. Drawing on the wellspring of tales such as "Sleeping Beauty," Beauty is a moving novel of love and loss, hope and despair, magic and nature. Set against a backdrop both enchanted and frightening, the story begins with a wicked aunt's curse that will afflict a young woman named Beauty on her sixteenth birthday. Though Beauty is able to sidestep tragedy, she soon finds herself embarked on an adventure of vast consequences. For it becomes clear that the enchanted places of this fantastic world--a place not unlike our own--are in danger and must be saved before it is too late.From the Paperback edition.

From the jacket flap

With the critically acclaimed novels "The Gate To Women's Country, Raising The Stones, and the Hugo-nominated "Grass, Sheri Tepper has established herself as one of the major science fiction writers of out Time. In "Beauty, she broadens her territory even further, with a novel that evokes all the richness of fairy tale and fable. Drawing on the wellspring of tales such as "Sleeping Beauty," Beauty is a moving novel of love and loss, hope and despair, magic and nature. Set against a backdrop both enchanted and frightening, the story begins with a wicked aunt's curse that will afflict a young woman named Beauty on her sixteenth birthday. Though Beauty is able to sidestep tragedy, she soon finds herself embarked on an adventure of vast consequences. For it becomes clear that the enchanted places of this fantastic world--a place not unlike our own--are in danger and must be saved before it is too late.

"From the Paperback edition.

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Media reviews

"Tepper is a  wise and compassionate narrator, and when it comes  to spinning a yarn that you don't ever want to  stop reading, there are few better spinners than  she."--The Magazine Of Fantasy & Science  Fiction

"Magnificent. . .This adult fairly tale  entertains and delivers a message in the best  tradition of the fantasy classics."--The  Denver Post.


From the Paperback edition.

Citations

  • ALA Best Books Young Adults, 01/01/1992, Page 1365
  • Booklist Ed Choice Adu Bk YA's, 01/01/1992, Page 872
  • School Library Journal, 02/01/1992, Page 121

About the author

Sheri S. Tepper (1929-2016) is the award-winning author of A Plague of Angels, Sideshow, Beauty, Raising the Stones, Grass, The Gate to Women's Country, After Long Silence, and Shadow's End. Grass was a New York Times Notable Book and Hugo Award nominee, and Beauty was voted Best Fantasy Novel by the readers of Locus magazine.

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