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 Title:                  Briar Rose
 Author:                 Jane Yolen
 Read By:                Linda Stevens
 Copyright:              2002
 Audiobook Copyright:    2002
 Genre:                  Juv Fantasy
 Abridged:               No

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Book Description
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From Publishers Weekly
Windling's Fairy Tale series has produced several excellent fantasy 
novels inspired by classic fairy tales. This is one of the series's 
most ambitious efforts, and only a writer as good as Yolen ( Sister 
Light, Sister Dark ) could bring it off. Yolen takes the story of Briar 
Rose (commonly known as Sleeping Beauty) and links it to the Holocaust--a 
far-from-obvious connection that she makes perfectly convincing. Rebecca 
Berlin, a young woman who has grown up hearing her grandmother Gemma 
tell an unusual and frightening version of the Sleeping Beauty legend, 
realizes when Gemma dies that the fairy tale offers one of the very 
few clues she has to her grandmother's past. To discover the facts behind 
Gemma's story, Rebecca travels to Poland, the setting for the book's 
most engrossing scenes and its most interesting, best-developed characters. 
By interpolating Gemma's vivid and imaginative story into the larger 
narrative, Yolen has created an engrossing novel. She handles a difficult 
subject with finesse in a book that should be required reading for anyone 
who is tempted to dismiss fantasy as a frivolous genre.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to 
an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

From Library Journal
A young woman's promise to her dying grandmother leads her on a quest 
to discover the truth of her own family's mysterious beginnings in this 
grim retelling of the classic fairy tale "Briar Rose," or "The Sleeping 
Beauty." In Yolen's modern-day version, the wall of thorns becomes a 
barbed-wire prison, while the sleeping princess is both victim and heroine. 
The latest in the "Fairy Tale" series showcases Yolen's skill at transforming 
the real world into a realm of fantasy. A good selection for adult and 
YA fantasy collections.