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Beauty

Sheri S. Tepper · 1991 · Novel

Synopsis

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.

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Source: OpenLibrary

Tags: FictionScience FictionFantasyAmerican Fantasy fictionFiction, fantasy, generalFantasy fiction

isfdb_id: 2384

openlibrary_id: OL104513W

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