STEAL from LIFE

Myths, fairy tales, plays and the Bible can be updated. Elyse Friedmans Waking Beauty updated a classic fairy tale by exploring what would happen if an ugly woman woke up one morning to find she had become a ravishing beauty. Award-winning author Larry Beinhart says, For Foreign Exchange, I 'st...

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Published in:The Writer (Boston) 2007-05, Vol.120 (5), p.23
Main Author: Henry, April
Format: Magazinearticle
Language:English
Subjects:
Fairy tales
Mysteries
Smiley, Jane
Writing
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Summary:Myths, fairy tales, plays and the Bible can be updated. Elyse Friedmans Waking Beauty updated a classic fairy tale by exploring what would happen if an ugly woman woke up one morning to find she had become a ravishing beauty. Award-winning author Larry Beinhart says, For Foreign Exchange, I 'stole' the ending from the film The African Queen. [...] a man who died in my thriller Learning to Fly bore an uncanny resemblance to an annoying cell phone salesman-except by the time he got into my book, he had morphed into a drug runner.
ISSN:0043-9517
2163-0046