Beauty A Novel

Name: Beauty A Novel
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ISBN: 9780385419406

ISBN-10: 0385419406

ISBN-13: 9780385419406

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Authors: Sheri S. Tepper

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With the critically acclaimed novelsThe Gate To Women's Country, Raising The Stones, and the Hugo-nominatedGrass, 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,…

Book details

List price: $19.00
Publisher: The Crown Publishing Group
Publication date: 7/1/1991
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 420
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English

Feminist and science fiction/fantasy writer Sheri S. Tepper was born in Denver, Colorado, in 1929. Grass (1990) was nominated for the Hugo Award and was a New York Times Notable Book. Dead in the Scrub (also 1990, written as B. J. Oliphant) was nominated for an Edgar Award. In addition to Oliphant, she has written under the pseudonyms A. J. Orde and E. E. Horlak.