CONFESSIONS OF AN UGLY STEPSISTER BY GREGORY MAGUIRE PDF

Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister [Gregory Maguire] on *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Editorial Reviews. Review. Gregory Maguire’s chilling, wonderful retelling of Cinderella is a study in contrasts. Love and hate, beauty and ugliness, . The inspired concept of Maguire’s praised debut, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, was not a fluke. Here he presents an equally.

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Her performance generates more empathy than the stepmother as usually depicted.

Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister

I think I will always try and fail to enjoy his writing. Anybody who has read Wicked will instantly feel right at home. I am aware that not everyone can write in second-person because it’s so difficult but you can’t fault Maguire with this.

Clara, tired of being merely an object of beauty, breaks free of her fears and becomes xn functioning member of society. Ruth is a large, hulking girl who doesn’t talk and Iris, although plain, is cunning and resourceful.

Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister by Gregory Maguire

I appreciated the more philosophical musing of art and beauty that are present throughout the book. I never particularly liked the story of Cinderella as a child and as an adult some of the more troubling aspects of the tale became apparent.

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Isn’t that sort of beauty more beautiful confesssions any other?

Cinderella complex Cinderella effect The Cinderella Movement. Deconstructing a fairy tale and retelling it from the point of view of a traditionally unsympathetic character looses its novelty quickly.

If you can, pick this up and fall in love with Cinderella: Actually, ‘Wicked’ was written after ‘Confessions’ but I read ‘Wicked first Iris is asked by Schoonmaker to be his model in a painting of wildflowers.

Van Den Meer Malcolm Tierney It was why I fell in love with Iris – she was so realistically self-deprecating that it made me feel like it’s okay to not be pretty.

The fact she has no shame in all this means she was either mentally-ill or horribly twisted. The two cultures in these stories have differences, but mwguire impact of beauty is applied in some way to both.

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Maguire had essentially repeated the same formula with a different fairy tale. Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. You will be redirected back to your article in seconds.

Iris is plain to look at. Oct 07, Audrephilia rated it it was ok. I very much disliked the preoccupation of the girl with changlings and imps.

But as I reached the middle part of the book, I realised this is not that kind of story. When I maguier at the cover, I thought, okay, maybe in this story Cinderella is the bad guy, maybe she got her confessons and being a bitch or something.

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After all, how I am an idiot. May 05, Mahina rated it really liked it Recommends it for: Which makes the ball what I felt should have been the climax even more disappointing.

Instead it came up, dazzled me with some fancy footwork, and then asked me for a sedate stepsistwr. View all 3 comments. It makes you look deep, past looks, past what everyone else tells you.

This was an easy read and an interesting take on the “Cinderella” story, but it wasn’t amazing. Want to Read Currently Reading Read. Instead of full of magical or a fairy tale ending, the author told the story in a different way. Maguire has always had this amazing way with words and even when writing from the second-person viewpoint, it was beautiful. So let my hands and my face make their way in this world, let my hungry eyes see, my tongue taste.

They secure lodging atepsister a painter in exchange for household chores.

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