ISBN: 9781250765352
Editorial: Tordotcom
Autor: Harrow, Alix E.
Año de edición: 2021
N° Paginas: 128
Tipo de pasta: Pasta dura
Descripción: About the AuthorA former academic and adjunct, Alix E. Harrow is a Hugo-award winning writer living in Virginia with her husband and their two semi-feral kids. She is the author of The Ten Thousand Doors of January, The Once and Future Witches, and various short fiction. Find her on Twitter!USA Today bestselling author Alix E. Harrow's A Spindle Splintered brings her patented charm to a new version of a classic story. Featuring Arthur Rackham's original illustrations for The Sleeping Beauty, fractured and reimagined.“A vivid, subversive and feminist reimagining of Sleeping Beauty, where implacable destiny is no match for courage, sisterhood, stubbornness and a good working knowledge of fairy tales.” ―Katherine ArdenIt's Zinnia Gray's twenty-first birthday, which is extra-special because it's the last birthday she'll ever have. When she was young, an industrial accident left Zinnia with a rare condition. Not much is known about her illness, just that no-one has lived past twenty-one.Her best friend Charm is intent on making Zinnia's last birthday special with a full sleeping beauty experience, complete with a tower and a spinning wheel. But when Zinnia pricks her finger, something strange and unexpected happens, and she finds herself falling through worlds, with another sleeping beauty, just as desperate to escape her fate.From School Library JournalTeen readers will absolutely love this fantastical, feminist, reimagined version of "Sleeping Beauty" starring Zinnia, a white young adult, newly 21, and living on borrowed time. Zinnia has a (fictional) rare genetic disorder that cuts her life short. On her birthday she pricks her finger and is transported into one of the "Sleeping Beauty" fairy tales. But this Sleeping Beauty, Primrose, is no helpless princess. Quickly, Zinnia bonds with Prim and the two set out to break their own curses. Through the help of a not-so-evil witch and countless Sleeping Beauties from different fairy-tale multiverses, Zinnia learns what it means to save herself and others. Harrow creates a lush and magical world with well-developed characters who are easy to love and root for. Employing the popular technique of multiverses, Harrow is able to give readers a diverse cast of Sleeping Beauties that are anything but passive. Although Zinnia is bisexual, her sexuality is not the focus of the story. Zinnia's best friend, Charm, is a lesbian who begins a romantic relationship with bisexual princess Primrose. VERDICT For fans of Laini Taylor, Leigh Bardugo, and Neil Gaiman's The Sleeper and the Spindle.-Melanie Leivers, Burnsville, MNα(c) Copyright 2011. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.ReviewAn NPR Best Book of 2021A Locus Best Book and Editor Favorite of 2021Shortlisted for the 2022 Hugo AwardA Locus Award FinalistShortlisted for the 2022 British Fantasy Award“A vivid, subversive and feminist reimagining of Sleeping Beauty, where implacable destiny is no match for courage, sisterhood, stubbornness and a good working knowledge of fairy tales.” ―Katherine Arden, bestselling author of the Winternight trilogy“An exceptional heroine, smart writing, and a winning plot.” ―Nancy Pearl“It's funny, sharp, queer, and deeply loves its source material...This novella pushes against the hopelessness of inevitability; it dares us to believe in sympathetic magic; it tells us we're connected through story. It might dent your heart a little, but it's good fun.” ―NPR“Like Into the Spider-Verse for Disney princesses, A Spindle Splintered is a delightful mash-up featuring Alix E. Harrow’s trademark beautiful prose and whip-smart characters.” ―Mike Chen, author of Here and Now and Then“A wonderfully imaginative, and Queer as hell, tale for those who wish to be the authors of their own stories.” ―Kalynn Bayron, author of Cinderella is Dead“This is a self-aware, empowered riff on Sleeping Beauty that manages to
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