Confessions of An Ugly Stepsister (Maguire, Gregory) (edit title)

Whitney edited the quotations of Confessions of An Ugly Stepsister (Maguire, Gregory) Monday, October 26 2009.

• Added a quotation: “I'm fanned and petted like a flower; I'm going to be planted in some rich man's garden so he can admire me!”Clara
• Added a quotation: “...why lock yourself in your own cage when someone is handing you a key?”Clara to Iris

Whitney edited the quotations of Confessions of An Ugly Stepsister (Maguire, Gregory) Monday, October 26 2009.

• Edited a quotation: “When have I had anything to do? I am twotoo pretty to do anything but be looked at.”Clara

Whitney edited the books like this book of Confessions of An Ugly Stepsister (Maguire, Gregory) Monday, October 26 2009.

• Added Mirror Mirror: A Novel

Whitney edited the quotations of Confessions of An Ugly Stepsister (Maguire, Gregory) Monday, October 26 2009.

• Edited a quotation: “"AnAn eye will help her love the world better, and isn't that why we live?"live?”Caspar to Margarethe on Iris
• Edited a quotation: “"WhenWhen have I had anything to do? I am two pretty to do anything but be looked at."at.”Clara

Whitney edited the quotations of Confessions of An Ugly Stepsister (Maguire, Gregory) Monday, October 26 2009.

• Added a quotation: “"When have I had anything to do? I am two pretty to do anything but be looked at."”Clara

Whitney edited the quotations of Confessions of An Ugly Stepsister (Maguire, Gregory) Monday, October 26 2009.

• Added a quotation: “"An eye will help her love the world better, and isn't that why we live?"”Caspar to Margarethe on Iris

Whitney edited the characters of Confessions of An Ugly Stepsister (Maguire, Gregory) Monday, October 26 2009.

• Added a character: Margarethe
• Added a character: Ruth
• Added a character: Clara
• Added a character: Schoonmaker
• Added a character: Caspar

Whitney edited the characters of Confessions of An Ugly Stepsister (Maguire, Gregory) Monday, October 26 2009.

• Changed the section title: Cast of Characters/Important People
• Added a character: Iris Fisher van den Meer

Shelfari edited the description of Confessions of An Ugly Stepsister (Maguire, Gregory) Friday, July 31 2009.

• Is this new land a place where magics really happen? From Gregory Maguire, the acclaimed author of Wicked, comes his much-anticipated second novel, a brilliant and provocative retelling of the timeless Cinderella tale. In the lives of children, pumpkins can turn into coaches, mice and rats into human beings.... When we grow up, we learn that it's far more common for human beings to turn into rats.... We all have heard the story of Cinderella, the beautiful child cast out to slave among the ashes.But what of her stepsisters, the homely pair exiled into ignominy by the fame of their lovely sibling? What fate befell those untouched by beauty . . . and what curses accompanied Cinderella's exquisite looks? Extreme beauty is an affliction Set against the rich backdrop of seventeenth-century Holland, Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister tells the story of Iris, an unlikely heroine who finds herself swept from the lowly streets of Haarlem to a strange world of wealth, artifice, and ambition. Iris's path quickly becomes intertwined with that of Clara, the mysterious and unnaturally beautiful girl destined to become her sister. Clara was the prettiest child, but was her life the prettiest tale? While Clara retreats to the cinders of the family hearth, burning all memories of her past, Iris seeks out the shadowy secrets of her new household--and the treacherous truth of her former life. God and Satan snarling at each other like dogs.... Imps and fairy godmotbers trying to undo each other's work. How we try to pin the world between opposite extremes! Far more than a mere fairy-tale, Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister is a novel of beauty and betrayal, illusion and understanding, reminding us that deception can be unearthed--and love unveiled--in the most unexpected of places.

Shelfari edited the contributors of Confessions of An Ugly Stepsister (Maguire, Gregory) Wednesday, July 22 2009.

• Added a contributor: Gregory Maguire: (Primary Author)