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Jul 01, 1991 | ISBN 9780385419406 Buy
Mar 01, 1992 | ISBN 9780553295276 Buy *This format is not eligible to earn points towards the Reader Rewards program
Dec 23, 2009 | ISBN 9780307571939 Buy
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Jul 01, 1991 | ISBN 9780385419406
Mar 01, 1992 | ISBN 9780553295276
Dec 23, 2009 | ISBN 9780307571939
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.
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… More about Sheri S. Tepper
"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.
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