Roquelaure, A. N.
Summary: In the traditional folktale of Sleeping Beauty the spell cast upon the lovely young princess can only be broken by the kiss of a Prince. However, in the world of Anne Rice, this legendary curse if broken not with a kiss but with a sexual initiation. The Prince's reward for ending the hundred years of enchantment is Beauty's complete and total enslavement to him. Sleeping Beauty awakes to world...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Putnam 1999
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Summary: In a crumbling seaside hotel on the coast of Japan, quiet seventeen-year-old Mari works the front desk as her mother tends to the off-season customers. When one night they are forced to expel a middle-aged man and a prostitute from their room, Mari finds herself drawn to the man's voice, in what will become the first gesture of a single long seduction.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picador 2010