A Terrible Beauty
by Nancy Baker
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"Will you give me your blood to drink, though you die of it?" In an unexpected twist on a fairy tale, an artist goes into the wilderness to fulfill his father's debt and finds himself the prisoner of a dangerous, alienly beautiful monster.Tags
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Beautiful love story. Needing someone so badly it is a matter of life or death yet willing to let him go. Epitome of unselfish love.
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Common Knowledge
- Original publication date
- 1996
- Dedication
- For my parents,
who showed me the kingdom
and gave me the keys - First words
- The letter lay among the others on the hall table for three days.
Classifications
- Genres
- Fiction and Literature, Horror, General Fiction, Fantasy
- DDC/MDS
- 813.54 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American fiction in English 1900-1999 1945-1999
- LCC
- PR9199.3 .B344 .T47 — Language and Literature English English Literature English literature: Provincial, local, etc.
- BISAC
Statistics
- Members
- 82
- Popularity
- 387,022
- Reviews
- 1
- Rating
- (4.00)
- Languages
- English, German
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 5
- ASINs
- 4
