Category - Fiction / Folklore & Mythology
Format - Paperback
Condition - Good
Listed - 10 months ago
Views - 4
Ships From - Minnesota
Est. Publication Date - Dec 2000
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Wo have all heard the story of Cinderella. she beautiful child cast out to slave among the ashes. But what of her stepsisters. the homely pair exiled into ignominy by the fame of their lovely sibling? What fate befell those untouched by beauty ... and what curses accompanied Cinderella's looks? Set against the backdrop of seventeenth-century Holland, Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister tells the story of Iris, an unlikely heroine who finds herself swept from the lowly streets of Haarlem to a strange world of wealth, artifice, and ambition. Iris's path quickly becomes intertwined with that of Clara, the mysterious and unnaturally beautiful girl destined to become her sister. While Clara retreats to the cinders of the family hearth. Iris seeks out the shadowy secrets of her new household-and the treacherous truth of her former life. Far more than a mere fairy tale. Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister is a novel of beauty and betrayal, illusion and understanding, reminding us that deception can be unearthed -and love unveiled--in the most unexpected of places.
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Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister: A Novel
ISBN: 9780060987527
Publisher Description
Is this new land a place where magics really happen? From Gregory Maguire, the acclaimed author of Wicked, comes his much-anticipated second novel, a brilliant and provocative retelling of the timeles...
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