Beauty

Beauty

With theÂ Â critically acclaimed novels The Gate ToÂ Â Women's Country, Raising The Stones, and theÂ Â Hugo-nominated Grass, SheriÂ Â Tepper has established herself as one of the majorÂ Â science fiction writers of out Time. InÂ Â Beauty, she broadens her territory evenÂ Â further, with a novel that evokes all the richness ofÂ Â fairy tale and fable. Drawing on the wellspringÂ Â of tales such as "Sleeping Beauty,"Â Â Beauty is a moving novel of love and loss, hope andÂ Â despair, magic and nature. Set against a backdropÂ Â both enchanted and frightening, the story beginsÂ Â with a wicked aunt's curse that will afflict a youngÂ Â woman named Beauty on her sixteenth birthday.Â Â Though Beauty is able to sidestep tragedy, she soonÂ Â finds herself embarked on an adventure of vastÂ Â consequences. For it becomes clear that theÂ Â enchanted places of this fantastic world--a place notÂ Â unlike our own--are in danger and must be saved beforeÂ Â it is too late.

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