Ebook {Epub PDF} Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister by Gregory Maguire

 · In "Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister," Cinderella is a manipulative, self-pitying child who hates her new family, fears the outside world and holes up at home until a visiting French prince's Estimated Reading Time: 3 mins. Gregory Maguire takes you from these ideas of good vs evil and the clear understanding of what is black and what is white, leaving you in a world of perpetual grayness, that is truer to real life. Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister is worth a read, if for no other reason than to remind us all how complicated and subjective the ideas of good and evil are. "Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister" is Gregory Maguire's twisted take on the classic Cinderella fairytale. The novel is set in seventeenth-century Holland, where two homely-looking sisters, Iris and Ruth, have fled from England with their mother, Margarethe/5().

Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister by Gregory Maguire ISBN ISBN Hardcover; New York: Regan Books, ; ISBN Smelling of tired vegetables, strong fish, smoking embers, earth on the roots of parsnips and cabbages. The habit of hunger is a hard one to master. The girls gasp. They are ravenous. Fish laid to serry like roofing tiles, glinting in their own oils. Gourds and marrows. Apples, golden, red, green. "Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister" is Gregory Maguire's twisted take on the classic Cinderella fairytale. The novel is set in seventeenth-century Holland, where two homely-looking sisters, Iris and Ruth, have fled from England with their mother, Margarethe.

Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister Gregory Maguire, Author, Bill Sanderson, Illustrator ReganBooks $ (p) ISBN More By and About This Author. Gregory Maguire is the New York Times bestselling author of A Wild Winter Swan; Hiddensee; After Alice; Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister; Lost; Mirror Mirror; and the Wicked Years, a series that includes Wicked—the beloved classic that is the basis for the blockbuster Tony Award–winning Broadway musical of the same name—Son of a Witch, A Lion Among Men, and Out of Oz. Maguire has lectured on art, literature, and culture both at home and abroad. Part fairy tale, part historical fiction, Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister is Maguire's creative interpretation of "Cinderella". The story takes us to seventeenth-century Holland where a plain and physically-unremarkable Iris, the protagonist, along with her conniving mother and mentally-challenged sister find themselves at the whim of the townsfolk's generosity and eventually at the mercy of their mother's bartering skills.