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Title	:	Beauty
Author	:	Sheri S. Tepper
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 463 pages
Published	:	December 23rd 2009 by Bantam Spectra (first published 1991)
Categories	:	Fantasy. Science Fiction. Fiction. Fairy Tales. Science Fiction Fantasy

Beauty

Sheri S. Tepper

Paperback | Pages: 463 pages

Rating: 3.83 | 5357 Users | 382 Reviews

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With the publication of The Gate to Women's Country, Sheri S. Tepper came to be recognized as a major science fiction writer. Now the author of Raising the Stones and Grass -- a New York Times Notable Book and Hugo Award finalist -- turns to Beauty, a fantasy with a story that is more, much more than fable.

Drawing on the wellspring of much-loved, well-remembered fairy tales, Tepper delivers a thought-provoking and finely crafted novel that thoroughly involves the reader in the life of one of the most captivating heroines in modern fantasy -- Beauty. On her sixteenth birthday Beauty is seemingly able to sidestep her aunt's curse. Instead she is transported to the future. Here begin her adventures as she travels magically back and forth in time to visit places both imaginary and real. Finally she comes to understand what has been her special gift to humanity all along.

For in Beauty, there is beauty. And in beauty, magic. Without our enchanted places, humanity is no more than an upstart ape. And this, we realize, is why Beauty must be saved, both in the fantastical world of Tepper's novel and in the actual world in which we live

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Original Title:	Beauty
ISBN:	0553295276 (ISBN13: 9780553295276)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel (1992)

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Ratings: 3.83 From 5357 Users | 382 Reviews

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I think the most twisted variation on the Sleeping Beauty legend remains Sheri Tepper's "Beauty". That was a great book, BUT. Grim. "Down, down to Happyland...." Disposal chute, for unwanted infants. Ugh. Ol' Sheri don't do subtle....Critic Gary K. Wolfe said "Beauty remains one of the genre-hopping masterpieces of the last 20 years," and I guess I'd agree, but it's.... Well. Pretty gross at times. Still worth reading. Once, anyway. I think about rereading, now & then, and run through pretty

Beauty is a novel about decay and death and horror and ugliness and the fantastic hope that beauty may one day return. Sherri S. Tepper won the Locus Award for best fantasy novel with this story in which the fairy tale princess of Sleeping Beauty magically travels in time from her real life origins to the present day and the distant future end of humankind fighting to save herself. In her travels she encounters many real live people who appear as characters in our world's fairy tales, finds an

This has to be one of Ms. Tepper's better works. In too many of her books, we usually see some kind of weird deus ex machina or whatever thrown in (Family Tree, Gibbon's Decline and Fall, the Visitor) so I am pleased to say that this story is more coherent than these.Anyone familiar with Ms. Tepper should not be surprised at her inclusion of commentaries against this or that - Ms. Tepper is quite the feminist, and snarks against religion, violence, patriarchy, the abuse of the

It took me a while to finish reading this book (In fact, when I was more than half way through, I almost quit, but Jackie encouraged me to finish the story.) There are several reasons for my reluctance to finish reading the book:1. I wasn't able to fully grasp or keep track of the plot because the main character, "Beauty" keeps moving back and forth between different time dimensions and different worlds, meeting different characters. That was confusing to me. So there was a sense of vagueness as

This book is a big hot mess! I kept reading because it was such a train wreck, a sick sense of fasciation held my interest. The plot is ridiculous: Tepper throws countless fairy tales, Bible stories, and unrelated fiction into a single storyline. But instead of cleverly weaving together disparate elements, it feels disjointed, haphazard, and nonsensical. Her writing frequently throws us such delicious awfulness as "his eyes glittered with hectic abandon." On top of that, here are my two major

4.5 stars. It took me so many tries to start this book. I don't know why. I liked the premise from the very first page - a fairy tale set in the historical 14th century! - but after two false starts a few years ago, I set it aside. This time, I jumped in with determination, and was stunned to find - mere pages after the part where I had given up twice before - the plot took a complete swan dive off the deep end and the book became something completely different than what I had expected it to be.