![]() ![]() Within days, purposeful Margarethe has secured the family a place in the home of an aspiring painter, where for a short time, they find happiness.īut this is Cinderella, after all, and tragedy is inevitable. Plain but smart Iris and her sister, Ruth, a hulking simpleton, are dazed and terrified as their mother, Margarethe, urges them into the strange Dutch streets. Maguire's characters are at once more human and more fanciful than their fairy-tale originals. ![]() Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister begins in 17th-century Holland, where the two Fisher sisters and their mother have fled to escape a hostile England. ![]() Love and hate, beauty and ugliness, cruelty and charity-each idea is stripped of its ethical trappings, smashed up against its opposite number, and laid bare for our examination. Gregory Maguire's chilling, wonderful retelling of Cinderella is a study in contrasts. ![]()
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