Amanda V. reviewed on 10/22/2005

from the back cover "In the traditional folk tale of "Sleeping Beauty" the spell cast upon the lovely young princess and everyone in her castle can only be brolen by the kiss of a Prince. It is an ancient story, one that originally emerged from and still deeply disturbs the mind's unconscious. Now Anne Rice's retelling of the Beauty story 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 rewasrd for ending the hundred years of enchantment is Beauty's complete and total enslavement to him...ad Ann Rice explored the whorld of erotic yearning and fanasy in a classic that becomes, with er skillful pen, a compelling expeience."

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