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WAKING BEAUTY by Elyse Friedman

如果你上床睡覺的時候又肥又醜又沮喪，隔天醒來卻發現自己美如天仙，你會怎麼辦？愛麗森‧潘妮真的就碰上了這種天降好事。在她短短的 22 年生命中，她一直處於沒自信、沒愛情、沒成就感的低潮谷底，她的室友是個壞心腸的性感美女，老媽是酒鬼，自己則靠當清潔工混飯吃…如今全都不同了，男人紛紛拜倒在石榴裙下，經紀公司奪命連環 call，她終於可以抬頭挺胸，享受眾人豔羨的目光，再也不必躲避幕後。可是當美女真的就可以幸福美滿嗎？還是有一籮筐新的麻煩要面對？

加拿大作者伊莉絲‧菲德曼用精妙無比的文字（相信我，讀完前兩頁你就會拜倒在她的石榴裙下），犀利尖刻的口吻，寫成《醒美人》這部生動、爆笑、驚奇不斷的現代童話，絕對夠黑、夠辣，這是 chick-lit 的最高成就，菲德曼狠狠踢爆表象至上的大眾文化，毫不留情地指出：無論多麼不願承認，我們都喜歡以貌取人（英文，平裝，256頁，Three Rivers Press，ISBN: 1400051061，6/04，備有樣書、書評）。

Publishers Weekly: "Friedman offers up a spunky, spiteful revenge novel about Allison Penny, an ugly 20-something who suddenly wakes up gorgeous - a silly conceit counterbalanced by bulls-eye social commentary and sharply drawn characters...Friedman thumbs her nose at many of the conventions of chick lit, and the nasty bite of her prose offers plenty of guilty pleasure."

Booklist: "This modern twist on an old fairy tale is funny, sometimes dark, and completely engaging, but the moral is a little pessimistic--it's what's on the outside that counts."

Poppy Z. Brite, author of LIQUOR: "What a great book! This isn't chick lit; it's human lit about a fantasy everyone has had: How different would life be if I woke up one day flawlessly gorgeous? The narrator is a sarcastic genius with a black outlook on life that only deepens when the world begins to kiss her formerly repulsive, now-perfect ass."