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Confessions of An Ugly Stepsister

Maguire, Gregory (Book - 2000)
Average Rating: 3.5 stars out of 5.
Confessions of An Ugly Stepsister


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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?

Additional Contributors: Sanderson, Bill
Imprint: New York - HarperCollins
Pages: 372
ISBN: 0060987529, 9780060987527
Call number: FICTION MAGUIRE 2000
Language: English
Contents: Prologue: Stories painted on porcelain
Obscure child
Marketplace
Stories told through windows
Looking
Meadow
Sitting for Schoonmaker
Girl with wildflowers
Half a door
Van den Meer's household
Imp-riddled house
Small room of outside
Small oils
Masterpiece
Rue, sage, thyme, and temper
Reception
Virginal
Simples
Girl of ashes
Flowers for the dead
Plague and quarantine
Nowhere windmill
Invitations
Fair light on a full table
wind and tide
Girl of ashes
Finery
Spine and chamber
Collapses
Gallery of God's mistakes
Campaigns
Gallery of God's mistakes
Cinderella
Van Stolk and van Antum
Night before the ball
Changeling
Small magic
Tulip and turnips
Ball
Medici ball
Clarissa of Aragon
Midnight
Most unholy night
Second slipper
Epilogue: Stories written in oils
Notes: Cover art: Douglas Smith
Prologue: Stories painted on porcelain -- Obscure child -- Marketplace -- Stories told through windows -- Looking -- Meadow -- Sitting for Schoonmaker -- Girl with wildflowers -- Half a door -- Van den Meer's household -- Imp-riddled house -- Small room of outside -- Small oils -- Masterpiece -- Rue, sage, thyme, and temper -- Reception -- Virginal -- Simples -- Girl of ashes -- Flowers for the dead -- Plague and quarantine -- Nowhere windmill -- Invitations -- Fair light on a full table -- wind and tide -- Girl of ashes -- Finery -- Spine and chamber -- Collapses -- Gallery of God's mistakes -- Campaigns -- Gallery of God's mistakes -- Cinderella -- Van Stolk and van Antum -- Night before the ball -- Changeling -- Small magic -- Tulip and turnips -- Ball -- Medici ball -- Clarissa of Aragon -- Midnight -- Most unholy night -- Second slipper -- Epilogue: Stories written in oils
Statement of responsibility: Gregory Maguire ; illustrations by Bill Sanderson
Characteristics: xii, 372 p. :,ill. ;,24 cm
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  • arburkholder19 rated this: 3.5 stars out of 5.

This book was really hard to get in to...the first third of the book painted this back story of how Iris and Ruth arrived in Holland. But, you have to read it to really appreciate the outcome of the story at the end. Once Clara emerged as a character and started getting involved in the story, that's when it started to pick up for me. In the end, it was a pretty good book.

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