Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister

✍ Scribed by Maguire, Gregory

• Book ID: 106868885
• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: en-GB
• Weight: 2 MB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780061960550

✦ Synopsis

"Cinderilla or, The Little Glass Slipper" (read the original version of the classic fairy tale); reading group guide.

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