Thursday, December 17, 2009

A lesbian re-telling of Beauty and the Beast?

I have read the story Roses and Thorns by Chris Anne Wolfe already, are there any other lesbian versions of Beauty and the Beast?A lesbian re-telling of Beauty and the Beast?
Maybe there's one called Beauty and the Breast.A lesbian re-telling of Beauty and the Beast?
http://www.amazon.com


This link is what I often use to find books of any certain genre. I put in 'Beauty and...' and a drop-down menu gave me 'Beast' etc.





Be sure you're in the Books category to do this. Then, at the left, see 'Gay and Lesbian' in blue - it's a link to click on to narrow your search. You can narrow it still more by looking again at the left for 'Literature and Fiction' and for even more specificity.





Amazon is great for finding such books, though you must narrow the search, otherwise you get thousands (yep) of books that include each word, 'Beauty' and 'Beast' in any combination... too many to look at.





If you see a book of interest and it says 'Look Inside' -click on title or book to do so. Click again for the menu. Scroll down for any reviews.





I saw, of course, Robin McKinley's 'Retelling: Beauty and...' plus a 'newer, darker' one by her called 'Rose Garden' - of the same general story.





I saw a link to http://www.alexflinn.com that may be of interest; apparently she's written many versions of this tale...but she isn't apparently lesbian and writes Y/A novels.





A good search will tell you more about this topic as done by Wolfe.


Best of luck finding a good book to read.


It's always a treat.
The closes thing I could find similar to that is:





Kissing the Witch: Old Tales in New Skins


by Emma Donoghue





and maybe this:





The Bloody Chamber


by Angela Carter





If you are interested in other fairy re-tellings from ';feminist'; perspective then check out this link : (http://feministsf.org/bibs/fairytales.ht鈥?/a>
booby and the breast

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