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Original Title: Briar Rose
ISBN: 0765342308 (ISBN13: 9780765342300)
Edition Language: English
Literary Awards: Nebula Award Nominee for Best Novel (1992), World Fantasy Award Nominee for Best Novel (1993), Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature (1993)
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Briar Rose Hardcover | Pages: 241 pages
Rating: 3.79 | 13115 Users | 1427 Reviews

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Title:Briar Rose
Author:Jane Yolen
Book Format:Hardcover
Book Edition:The Fairy Tale Series
Pages:Pages: 241 pages
Published:March 15th 2002 by Tor for Teen (first published August 31st 1988)
Categories:Young Adult. Historical. Historical Fiction. Fantasy. Fiction. Fairy Tales. World War II. Holocaust

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A powerful retelling of Sleeping Beauty that is "heartbreaking and heartwarming."

An American Library Association "100 Best Books for Teens"
An American Library Association "Best Books for Young Adults"

Ever since she was a child, Rebecca has been enchanted by her grandmother Gemma's stories about Briar Rose. But a promise Rebecca makes to her dying grandmother will lead her on a remarkable journey to uncover the truth of Gemma's astonishing claim: I am Briar Rose. A journey that will lead her to unspeakable brutality and horror. But also to redemption and hope.

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Ratings: 3.79 From 13115 Users | 1427 Reviews

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I never read much Young Adult fiction before joining Goodreads because it never occurred to me that some of it could appeal to an adult reader. But that was then and this is now and while the majority of my book choices are still geared toward an adult audience, I'm certainly more open to YA as a possible source for enjoyment than I ever used to be. I'm glad because this book was a winner.A lot of YA tends to oversimplify certain things and this was no exception, however, since the intended

1.5 stars Got about 3/4 of the way through and then had to put it down. Jane Yolen definitely didn't have to put all the gay/lesbian stuff in the book. It was just a bit too bothersome for me to finish :( And there could have been less swearing.

I'm really, really disturbed by the majority of two star reviews here dismissing the book because of its LGBT content. It's been two years since I read it, so I don't exactly remember how graphic it was, but if I had to make an educated guess it wasn't half as graphic as your average heterosexual romance novel.Let me be clear here: I didn't like this book. At all. I didn't like it because the Holocaust story seemed tacked on and deliberately made to fit the fairy tale for dramatic effect and

Mmm, I'm very sorry to say that this is by far the most implausible retelling of a classic fairy tale that I've read recently, and not because of historical inaccuracies or bad writing.Simply put: it's because Yolen tries too hard to draw a parallel between the Charles Perrault tale of Briar Rose, a.k.a. The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood, and the tribulations of Gemma/Gitl Mandelstein, a now elderly survivor of the Holocaust who obsessive-compulsively tells and retells the fairy tale to her three

If you picked up this book thinking it was a fantasy/modern fairytale, you will be disappointed. There is NO fantasy, magic, magical creatures, alternate realities etc in this book. In fact, I almost didn't finish it because it seemed like a pretty standard piece of fluff for over half the book. I am glad that I did finish it, though. The only reason I did was because I decided to look up some reviews to see what the deal was. I found this book looking for retelling of fairytales/fantasy type

Okay, I actually couldn't finish this because the writing was deeply awful (which is a shame, because I thought the plot was very interesting), but I have to post a review just so I can include the line that had me and my husband laughing ourselves silly. Real line, really included in this book, really not removed by her editor:"Her eyebrows worked independently of one another, which gave her the look of a slightly demented dove." (Followed by: "Becca decided she liked that.")So many questions

Not since Bitter Greens and Deathless have I read a fairy-tale retelling that truly embraced the power of historical context. I think one of the best types of retellings understands that fairy tales were not written (or read) in a vacuum. Much like horror stories, fairy tales have always explored the tellers' fears and desires, and often subverted mainstream societal norms and constraints. By choosing to blend history (whether real or imagined) with fairy tale, the retelling gains a

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