Beauty: A Novel

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With thecritically acclaimed novels The Gate ToWomen's Country, Raising The Stones, and theHugo-nominated Grass, SheriTepper has established herself as one of the majorscience fiction writers of out Time. InBeauty, she broadens her territory evenfurther, with a novel that evokes all the richness offairy tale and fable. Drawing on the wellspringof tales such as "Sleeping Beauty,"Beauty is a moving novel of love and loss, hope anddespair, magic and nature. Set against a backdropboth enchanted and frightening, the story beginswith a wicked aunt's curse that will afflict a youngwoman named Beauty on her sixteenth birthday.Though Beauty is able to sidestep tragedy, she soonfinds herself embarked on an adventure of vastconsequences. For it becomes clear that theenchanted places of this fantastic world--a place notunlike our own--are in danger and must be saved beforeit is too late.

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"Tepper is awise and compassionate narrator, and when it comesto spinning a yarn that you don't ever want tostop reading, there are few better spinners thanshe."--The Magazine Of Fantasy & ScienceFiction

"Magnificent. . .This adult fairly taleentertains and delivers a message in the besttradition of the fantasy classics."--TheDenver Post.

Author Bio

Sheri S. Tepper(19292016) is the award-winning author ofA Plague of Angels, Sideshow, Beauty, Raising the Stones, Grass, The Gate to Women's Country, After Long Silence, andShadow's End. Grasswas aNew York TimesNotable Book and Hugo Award nominee, andBeautywas voted Best Fantasy Novel by the readers ofLocusmagazine.