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Block, Francesca Lia

The Rose and the Beast: Fairy Tales Retold

232 pp. | HarperCollins/Cotler | October, 2000 | Trade ISBN 0-06-028129-4 $$14.95 | Library ISBN 0-06-028130-8 $$14.89
(3) YA Image-rich and narratively oblique, Block's re-imagined fairy tales exist both in her sensuous, dangerous vision of L.A. and in a misty wish-fulfillment world of cozy beds and natural scents. Her style ("The girl was nightmare. Young young young. Silver white. Perfect. Untorn. Perfect"), once groundbreaking, here occasionally parodies itself, but the whirlwind incoherence and literary naïveté can still enchant.
Reviewer: Anita L. Burkam

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