商品簡介
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.
作者簡介
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 Novel by the readers of Locus magazine.
