Книга: Robin McKinley «Beauty (изд. 2004 г. )»
Производитель: "Random House, Inc." When the family business collapses, Beauty and her two sisters are forced to leave the city and begin a new life in the countryside. However, when their father accepts hospitality from an elusive and magical Beast, he is forced to make a terrible promise. Издательство: "Random House, Inc." (2004)
ISBN: 978-0-552-54863-2 |
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Robin McKinley
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Robin McKinley (born
Biography
Born in her mother's hometown of
McKinley attended Gould Academy, a preparatory school in
Over the years she has worked as an editor and transcriber (1972-73), research assistant (1976-77), bookstore clerk (1978), teacher and counselor (1978-79), editorial assistant (1979-81), barn manager (1981-82; a horse fell on her hand, delaying "The Blue Sword" by six weeks), free-lance editor (1982-85; during this time she broke her ankle, expediting the finish of "Hero"), and full-time writer. Other than books she counts as her major preoccupations grand opera and long walks, both of which she claims keep the blood flowing and the imagination limber.
Writing
The heroines in McKinley's books reflect certain qualities that she saw in herself as a young woman: clumsiness, plainness, bookishness, and disinterest in the usual social games that involve flirting and dating (she says, "I didn't discover boys because they didn't discover me, and because their standards of discovery seemed to me too odd to be aspired to... they were the ones who got to have adventures, while we got to -- well, not have adventures.") She believes now that most girls go through a time growing up when they believe they must have an innate greatness and destiny beyond the apparent; that they are in fact lost princesses, switched at birth.
She writes about strong heroines because she feels very strongly about the potential for girls to be "doing things" and she feels that the selection of fantasy literature featuring girls is scarce and unsatisfactory. According to biographer Marilyn H. Karrenbrock, "McKinley's females do not simper; they do not betray their own nature to win a man's approval. But neither do they take love lightly or put their own desires before anything else. In McKinley's books, the romance, like the adventure, is based upon ideals of faithfulness, duty, and honor."
As far as her writing goes, McKinley describes herself as a "scribe" and "Damar's historian", because the stories "happen to her" and she is only responsible for writing them down. The stories of Damar have been occurring to her since before she wrote "Beauty", and "The Blue Sword" was intended to be the first of a series about this land. [http://www.robinmckinley.com/FAQ/FAQ04.html#Damar] Her first two books, "The Blue Sword" and "The Hero and the Crown", are both set there, as are her contribution to the "Imaginary Lands" anthology and four of the five stories in "A Knot in the Grain". She has also written several retellings of fairy tales; "Beauty" and "Rose Daughter" are both versions of
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* "Rowan" (1992) illus. Donna Ruff
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References
* Contemporary Authors Online, Thomson Gale, 2004. Entry Updated : 21 October 2004.
External links
* [http://www.robinmckinley.com/ Robin McKinley's Website]
* [http://robinmckinleysblog.com/ Robin McKinley's blog]
* [http://scifan.com/writers/mm/McKinleyRobin.asp Bibliography] on
* [http://www.boldoutlaw.com/robint/mckinley1.html Interviews in Sherwood - Robin McKinley on her Outlaws of Sherwood novel]
* [http://mindstalk.net/mckinley/ Fansite] with commentary and mailing list
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