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Blue
Beyond Blue
(Hardcover - 2005)
This is an exploration
of contemporary family dynamics, moral conundrums,
and romantic love through one of our oldest literary
forms-the fairy tale. "Inspired and barbed, Slater's
fairy tales are irresistible.
Mermaids, seal
women, little girls born of eggs, old men born of
prematurely aged parents, and other strange creatures
populate award-winning author Lauren Slater's stories
of magic, psychology, pain, and release.
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Slater depicts the modern-day
psycho-pharmaceutical industry and our ongoing obsession
with chemically synthetic solutions, the staleness and surprises
embedded in married erotic love, the conflicts in the mother-daughter
bond, the universal struggle with dependency and addiction,
and more. In addition, she explicitly and implicitly explores
the value that fairy tales and fables still have in our
culture as tools of healing and illumination.
"World-weary grown-ups
will find Slater's tales delightfully wry" (Amanda
Heller, Boston Sunday Globe) as she successfully combines
her skills as a storyteller and her profound knowledge of
psychology to create a bizarre world that is also hauntingly
familiar. Daring and absurd, poignant and disturbing, these
stories are beautifully written and will enchant and edify
adult readers forever after.
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