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| Original Title: | The Rose and the Beast: Fairy Tales Retold |
| ISBN: | 0064407454 (ISBN13: 9780064407458) |
| Edition Language: | English |
Francesca Lia Block
Paperback | Pages: 240 pages Rating: 3.77 | 7091 Users | 433 Reviews
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| Title | : | The Rose and the Beast: Fairy Tales Retold |
| Author | : | Francesca Lia Block |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 240 pages |
| Published | : | August 7th 2001 by Joanna Cotler Books/HarperCollinsPublishers (first published September 19th 2000) |
| Categories | : | Fantasy. Young Adult. Fairy Tales. Short Stories. Fiction. Retellings |
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With language that is both lyrical and distinctly her own, Francesca Lia Block turns nine fairy tales inside out.Escaping the poisoned apple, Snow frees herself from possession to find the truth of love in an unexpected place.
A club girl from L.A., awakening from a long sleep to the memories of her past, finally finds release from its curse.
And Beauty learns that Beasts can understand more than men.
Within these singular, timeless landscapes, the brutal and the magical collide, and the heroine triumphs because of the strength she finds in a pen, a paintbrush, a lover, a friend, a mother, and finally, in herself.
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Ratings: 3.77 From 7091 Users | 433 ReviewsWeigh Up About Books The Rose and the Beast: Fairy Tales Retold
Author: Francesca Lia BlockTitle: The Rose and the Beast: Fairy tales retold Description: This book is a selection of nine retellings of fairy tales, all set in contemporary United States.Review source: nope, this one I wanted and purchased on my own (I know, you didnt think I did that)Plot: The short stories are not connected, other than stylistically and by the fact that they are fairy tales.Characters: Blocks most memorable characters are her heroines. A book like this one really brings itAs the title might suggest, Francesca Lia Blocks The Rose and the Beast takes some of the most popular of Grimms fairy tales and plops them down in modern-day Los Angeles. The tales are reworked to fit a modern day world, but the lessons, both new and old, behind each tale have not been lost in the least.Now, much like the original Grimm fairy tales, these tales have not been sugar-coated in the least. While the author refrained from outright telling the readers what some of the heroines were
In The Rose and the Beast, Block writes fairytale-inspired short stories that take snapshots from various angles of the budding sexuality of teenage girls. Often, these stories depict sexual violence, like in "Wolf," where a teenage girl runs away from home after her mother confronts her stepfather about what he's been doing to her daughter at night. But sometimes the girls discover their sexuality in less violent ways, like in "Tiny," where a Thumbelina-type girl runs away from home to find the
3.5 out of 5This collection of nine fairy tale retellings has a little bit of everything: it's dark and gritty, modern and timeless, magical and realistic... And always so dreamy and lyrical!
I think my favourite thing about this book are all the people clutching their pearls over how Block made the stories "dark" or "edgy," complaining about the "unnecessary" drugs, sex, violence, and (eyeroll) ~bad language~. It made me perversely like this book more. Don't like dark fairy tales? Tough, they've always been dark. It's only very recently that they've been sanitized by companies like Disney trying to take out all the sex and violence to make them more palatable to overprotective
This is a strangely compelling novel. It was a surprisingly engaging read.I read a few pages in store and was ambivalent, but was willing to give it a try. I thought this was going to be a novel that I picked at, for probably a couple weeks, turns out I finished it the same day I bought it. I didn't sit down and read it all through--I read one chapter (which equals one fairytale), then did something else...read a chapter, did something else...rinse and repeat.Each story has its own moral issue,
I like the dark tone of this short story collection, but none of the fairy tale retellings stuck with me in any significant way. The writing was good, but I just didn't feel any sense of suspense or anticipation.
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