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Chargement... Fair Perilpar Nancy Springer
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. I loved this fantasy. One of my favorite books. There is so much going on in the story your attention will not drift from beginning to end. ( ) I absolutely loved this book! I love 'fairy tale' type novels and this one is great! Good from start to finish, no slow periods and just an overall great book. My mom, who is a sci-fi /mystery reader, picked up my book while she was waiting for me to come out of an appointment I had and she is now reading it (I let her read it after I had finished it).. so it even got my mom hooked. First book I read by this author, but I liked it so much I'm going to see what else she's written :) Told from the point of view of 3 generations of women - personifying the mother, the maiden and the crone - Fair Peril is primarily the story of Buffy, a middleaged storyteller, and her quest for selfrealisation. Buffy, who has recently been replaced with a younger trophy wife, finds a talking frog. Rather than follow the fairy tale imperative and have it transform into a prince, she prefers to keep it as a gimmick at her storytelling arrangements. Her teenage daughter Emily saves the frog and she and the prince ends up in Fair Peril - or faerie - where they keep being forced into fairy tales and archetypical roles. Buffy sets out to save her daughter and manages to transform one man into a frog, another into a fog. She finds herself and Emily in the Mall, and manages to save both her and the prince with her storytelling powers, and a bout of introspection. The passages told from the point of the crone - Buffys mother - seems tacked on with no relevance to the story. Other than that it is a sweet little story, with a fun take on fairy tales, the subconsious and archetypes. It took me a while to get into the story, I suspect it may be because middleaged, maladjusted and fat women are hard to accept as heroes. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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The art of storytelling and the power of a mother's love imbue this feminist fantasy novel--a contemporary riff on the tale of the frog prince Once upon a time there was a middle-aged woman whose husband dumped her the month after their twentieth anniversary . . . Divorced, overweight Buffy Murphy is not a happy camper. One April afternoon, she walks into the woods . . . and meets a talking bullfrog. He asks her to kiss him so he can transform back into his princely self. This being modern-day Pennsylvania, Buffy figures she's better off with a talking amphibian than a cheating husband, so she takes him home. The fun really starts when her rebellious teenage daughter, Emily, kisses him. Suddenly, Emily and her handsome prince have vanished into the land of Fair Peril, an enchanted realm that can only be accessed through a portal in the local mall. Aided by a gay librarian named LeeVon and hindered by her fairy-godmother-in-law, Fay, Buffy shuttles back and forth between the real world and Fair Peril. Does Emily really want to be rescued, or does she just need someone to love her? It's up to Buffy to figure out the key to reclaiming her daughter--and maybe herself, as well. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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