Beauty's Folly

by Eugie Foster

Overview

When the fortunes of Annabel's father took a dramatic downturn, they were plunged into sudden poverty, forced to move from their lavish estate to the slums of New York. While Annabel learns to cope with, Even thrive under the hardships and challenges of their new life, her father and sister struggle to overcome the prejudices of their privileged upbringing.


One day, Annabel is drawn by an otherworldly melody to strike up a Conversation with an alley panhandler. Eloy is a strange man with beastly features. He unnerves her with his abrupt marriage proposal, astonishing her further with his lavish gifts. He whisks Annabel's father to a strange, magical manor, only releasing him when she agrees to take his place.

A modern retelling of Beauty and the Beast.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940016714738
Publisher:	Eugie Foster
Publication date:	06/24/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	399 KB

About the Author

Eugie Foster calls home a mildly haunted, fey-infested house in metro Atlanta that she shares with her husband, Matthew. After receiving her master’s degree in Psychology, she retired from academia to pen flights of fancy. She also edits legislation for the Georgia General Assembly, which from time to time she suspects is another venture into flights of fancy.

Eugie received the 2009 Nebula Award for her novelette, “Sinner, Baker, Fabulist, Priest; Red Mask, Black Mask, Gentleman, Beast,” the 2011 and 2012 Drabblecast People's Choice Award for Best Story, the 2012 eFestival of Words Best Independent Short Story Collection eBook Award, and the 2002 Phobos Award. THE DRAGON AND THE STARS anthology, edited by Derwin Mak and Eric Choi, with her story, “Mortal Clay, Stone Heart,” won the 2011 Prix Aurora Award for Best English Related Work. Her fiction has also been translated into eight languages and been a finalist for the Hugo and British Science Fiction Association awards.

Her short story collection, RETURNING MY SISTER'S FACE AND OTHER FAR EASTERN TALES OF WHIMSY AND MALICE, was published in 2009 and has been used as a textbook at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and the University of California-Davis.

Editorial Reviews

a modern take on "Beauty and the Beast."… I was lulled by the tale's atmosphere and its gorgeous descriptions. Foster proves once again that she sure knows her way around a fairy tale.

Tangent - Kimberly Lundstrom