The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty: A Novel (A Sleeping Beauty Novel) Paperback - 1999
by Anne Rice
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- Title The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty: A Novel (A Sleeping Beauty Novel)
- Author Anne Rice
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Condition New
- Pages 272
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Books, New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date 1999-05-01
- Features Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # J11E-00369
- ISBN 9780452281424 / 0452281423
- Weight 0.46 lbs (0.21 kg)
- Dimensions 8.01 x 4.76 x 0.8 in (20.35 x 12.09 x 2.03 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
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Themes
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Library of Congress subjects Sex, Man-woman relationships
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 82014715
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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Summary
In the traditional folktale of "Sleeping Beauty," the spell cast upon the lovely young princess and everyone in her castle can only be broken by the kiss of a Prince. It is an ancient story, one that originally emerged from and still deeply disturbs the mind's unconscious. In the first book of the trilogy, Anne Rice, writing as A.N. Roquelaure, retells the Beauty story and probes the unspoken implications of this lush, suggestive tale by exploring its undeniable connection to sexual desire. Here the Prince awakens Beauty, not with a kiss, but with sexual initiation. His reward for ending the hundred years of enchantment is Beauty's complete and total enslavement to him . . . as Anne Rice explores the world of erotic yearning and fantasy in a classic that becomes, with her skillful pen, a compelling experience. Readers of Fifty Shades of Grey will indulge in Rice’s deft storytelling and imaginative eroticism, a sure-to-be classic for years to come.
Praise for The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty:
"Articulate, baroque, and fashionably pornographic." —Playboy
"Something very special . . . at once so light and yet so haunting." —The Advocate
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- People Weekly, 08/13/2012, Page 50