With the critically acclaimed novels "The Gate To Women's Country, Raising The Stones, and the Hugo-nominated "Grass, Sheri Tepper has established herself as one of the major science fiction writers of out Time. In "Beauty, she broadens her territory even further, with a novel that evokes all the richness of fairy tale and fable. Drawing on the wellspring of tales such as "Sleeping Beauty," Beauty is a moving novel of love and loss, hope and despair,...