The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty Paperback - 1999
by A. N. Roquelaure; Anne Rice
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
First line
THE PRINCE had all his young life known the story of Sleeping Beauty, cursed to sleep for a hundred years, with her parents, the King and Queen, and all of the Court, after pricking her finger on a spindle.
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- Title The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty
- Author A. N. Roquelaure; Anne Rice
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 272
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Books, New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date 1999-05-01
- 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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Citations
- People Weekly, 08/13/2012, Page 50
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