Briar rose
By: Robert Coover.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Grove Press; Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated
Published: 1996
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 86
Subjects: Fairy tales -- Adaptations.
Description: Briar Rose, a brilliant recreation of the timeless Sleeping Beauty story, tells of a prince trapped in the briars; a sleeping beauty who cannot awaken, dreaming of a succession of kissing princes; and the old spell-casting fairy who inhabits the princess's dreams, regaling her with legends of other sleeping beauties and trying to imagine the nature of human desire.