She consults Stan, a good friend and journalist who works for an "alternative" newspaper and uncovers historical facts. After her grandmother's death, Rebecca Berlin, the youngest of her three granddaughters (referred to as Becca in the novel) begins to believe that there is some meaning behind the bedtime story that her grandmother told to them hundreds of times. In the present day, Gemma's Jewish family is living somewhere outside a city in Massachusetts. The times when "Gemma" tells the story are flashbacks and alternate between the present-day story. She tells this to the children almost all the time and it is the only bedtime story she ever tells. The story is based around the German fairy tale of Briar Rose ( Sleeping Beauty) which is told by "Gemma", an elderly woman, to her three granddaughters. The ending is part of the "home" section, returning after the castle. The book is divided into two parts, the "home", and the "castle". It was also nominated for the Nebula Award. The novel won the annual Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature in 1993. Incorporating elements of Sleeping Beauty, it was published as part of the Fairy Tale Series of novels compiled by Terri Windling. Briar Rose is a young adult novel written by American author Jane Yolen, published in 1992.
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Priced to reflect both the book's former state and its present condition. Signed, in my presence, by the author on the title page just above his printed name (signature only). The dustjacket presents as fine under archival mylar (unclipped, unfaded) for the most part from the exterior (a small hole in each flap) but, since it was glued down at one point, there is some roughness on the verso of each flap. There are a few pages (starting on page 209) with some mild wrinkling near the bottom (not creasing), otherwise fine. The endpages have been professionally (and expertly) replaced, and the book is in near fine condition - the corners are straight, the covers are clean and firm. A clean ex-library copy with a small name stamped in the top right corner of the title page as the only reminder of the book's former status. Mar-1990 (Hardcover) Apr-1991 (Paperback) Formats: Print / eBook / Audio. First US edition, first printing (complete number row - "10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1"). *Who Writes Cinderella Stories Better than Eloisa James? Readers will love the Wildes of Lindow Castle! The first book in Eloisa James’s dazzling new series set in the Georgian period glows with her trademark wit and sexy charm-and introduces a large, eccentric family. He’s never lost a battle.īut a spirited woman like Willa isn’t going to make it easy. She wants nothing to do with a man whose private life is splashed over every newspaper.Īlaric has never met a woman he wanted for his own. Her love of books and bawdy jokes is purely for the delight of her intimate friends. Willa presents the façade of a serene young lady to the world. Alaric escapes to his father’s castle, but just as he grasps that he’s not only famous but notorious, he encounters the very private, very witty, Miss Willa Ffynche. Arriving home from years abroad, he has no idea of his own celebrity until his boat is met by mobs of screaming ladies. Lord Alaric Wilde, son of the Duke of Lindow, is the most celebrated man in England, revered for his dangerous adventures and rakish good looks. The ending is James Bondishly unbelievable. And a key plotline requires the reader to believe the FSB is unaware Dominika and Nash have previously met – even though in the now-filmed Red Sparrow the service has a huge file on the CIA man who Dominika is sent to Helsinki to seduce! Synesthete – one of those very rare people who ‘sees’ people’s feeling and moods as colours – Colonel Dominika Egorova of the Russian counterintelligence service, always described her American lover Nate Nash’s aura as purple. The final part of Jason Matthews’ thunderous and compelling Red Sparrow espionage trilogy is both contemporary and timeless – an espionage tale full of nail-biting suspense and eroticism that takes the reader beyond the headlines of what has become the second Cold War.īut behind the fireworks, the exacting tradecraft, often horrific violence and the sex, this elegantly written and self-assured story lacks the impact of the first two parts, Red Sparrow and Palace of Treason. |