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Hawes, Louise

Black Pearls: A Faerie Strand

211 pp. | Houghton | May, 2008 | Trade ISBN 978-0-618-74797-9 $16.00
(3) YA Illustrated by Rebecca Guay. Hawes presents fairy tales gone rotten at the core; the innocent heroes of the originals are shown to be perverse, pathetic, or simply unpleasant. Self-absorbed Cinderella is obsessed with glamour; Hansel turns against Gretel; one of the dwarfs lusts after comatose Snow White. Hawes's prose is sharp and memorable. Guay's digitally enhanced graphite and paint illustrations pick up on the tales' darkness.
Reviewer: Deirdre F. Baker

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