Beauty

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TitleBeauty
Year for Search1991
AuthorsTepper, Sheri [Shirley] S[tewart](1929-2016)
Date Published1991
PublisherDoubleday
Place PublishedNew York
KeywordsFemale author, US author
Annotation

Mostly fantasy deriving from the tale of Sleeping Beauty presented as “The Journal of Beauty daughter of the Duke of Westfaire” with interpolations by “Carabosse, the fairy of clocks, keeper of the secrets of time”. Beauty travels into various futures, including an authoritarian 21st century dystopia. On the dust jacket “A Note from the Author” connects the novel to the loss of natural habitat, the loss of beauty, which she hopes is only sleeping, not dying. 
Additional Publishers

U.K. ed. London: HarperCollins, 1992. Rpt. London: Grafton, 1993. 
Info Notes

On the dust jacket "A Note from the Author" connects the novel to the loss of natural habitat, the loss of beauty, which she hopes is only sleeping, not dying.
Holding Institutions

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Author Note

Female author (1929-2016).
Full Text

1991 Tepper, Sheri [Shirley] S[tewart] (1929-2016). Beauty. New York: Doubleday. U.K. ed. London: HarperCollins, 1992. Rpt. London: Grafton, 1993. PSt

Mostly fantasy deriving from the tale of Sleeping Beauty presented as “The Journal of Beauty daughter of the Duke of Westfaire” with interpolations by “Carabosse, the fairy of clocks, keeper of the secrets of time”. Beauty travels into various futures, including an authoritarian 21st century dystopia. On the dust jacket “A Note from the Author” connects the novel to the loss of natural habitat, the loss of beauty, which she hopes is only sleeping, not dying. Female author.