I think you can see elements of "Beauty" even in books which aren't full retellings.
I had to track down a source for this quotation before citing it; it appeared originally on McKinley's blog in 2008, but the relevant archives no longer appear to exist.
"The story I tell over and over and over and over is Beauty and the Beast. It all comes from there. There are variations on the theme—and it's inside out or upside down sometimes—but the communication gap between one living being and another is pretty much the ground line. And usually the gap-bridger is love."
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Date: 2019-01-27 11:25 pm (UTC)I had to track down a source for this quotation before citing it; it appeared originally on McKinley's blog in 2008, but the relevant archives no longer appear to exist.
"The story I tell over and over and over and over is Beauty and the Beast. It all comes from there. There are variations on the theme—and it's inside out or upside down sometimes—but the communication gap between one living being and another is pretty much the ground line. And usually the gap-bridger is love."