Now her parents and her first love are long dead, and rosehailed upon her awakening as the long. A long long sleep easily ranks in my top 10, and its always on my lips to recommend to people. Anna is not the voice actor used for the audiobook. This site is like a library, use search box in the widget to get ebook that you want. I have read a lot of teen fiction since i teach that age group.
Anna sheehan is an american writer and novelist, best known as the author of a long, long. Fast forward to three days before the book was due and i received an email from the library. Sheehan delivers an interesting spin on the sleeping beauty fairy tale in this science fiction retelling. A long, long sleep by anna sheehan 7,146 ratings, 3. In anna sheehan s futuristic young adult debut, a long, long sleep, this sleeping beauty bears no resemblance to the disney princess. The book addresses serious issues including what makes a person, in. While it is at first appears that she was placed in stasis for her own safety soon after she was put in, millions were killed during what is now called the dark times and then simply forgotten, the truth is even more horrific.
I think sheehan will be one to watch out for in future, but this book didnt quite pull at my heart strings enough to make much of an impact on me. I would love to read a sequal sooner rather than later but like you said, the publishing industry is a waiting game. A long, long sleep quotes by anna sheehan goodreads. Winner of the hal clement award for 2012 for her first book, a long, long sleep, anna sheehan is also the author of no life but this a sequel to a long long sleep, and spinning thorns. Anna sheehan says of a long, long, sleep, her first novel, i always thought the interesting thing about sleeping beauty wasnt why she was put to sleep, but what she had to come to terms with afterward.
A long, long sleep anna sheehan this is a work of fiction. May 05, 2012 a long, long sleep 2011 by anna sheehan hardcover edition publisher. This acclaimed book by anna sheehan is available at in several formats for your ereader. Read your way through this list of 162 young adult books that are all retellings or reimaginings of popular classic literature, myths, fairy tales and shakespearean plays. Dec 18, 2015 anna sheehan says of a long, long sleep, her first novel, i always thought the interesting thing about sleeping beauty wasnt why she was put to sleep, but what she had to come to terms with afterward. Anna sheehan author of a long, long sleep menu skip to content. A long, long sleep by anna sheehan by anna sheehan. Anna sheehan science fictionromance sixteenyearold rosalinda fitzroy, heir to the multiplanetary corporation unicorp, is awakened after sixty years in stasis to find that everyone she knew has died and as she tries to make a new life for herself, learns she is the target of a robot assassin. Three brothers tear their way through childhood smashing tomatoes all over each other, building kites from trash, hiding out when their parents do battle, tiptoeing around the house as their mother sleeps off. A long, long sleep is a sleeping beauty retelling of sorts set in a futuristic world where there are galactic empires and a crossbread of new races. So i was setting myself up for disappointment in this, my first attempt to discern whether all candlewick authors are as good as patrick ness and melina marchetta.
A long, long sleep by anna sheehan, hardcover barnes. Now imagine that nobody woke the sleeping beauty up for sixtytwo years, and youve got the core idea for a long, long sleep. A long, long sleep by anna sheehan 2011, hardcover for. Where does a long, long sleep rank among all the audiobooks youve listened to so far. A long, long sleep by anna sheehan overdrive rakuten.
But who knows, maybe it will make an impact on you. Anna sheehan is the author of a long long sleep, no life but this, and spinning thorns. Buy a cheap copy of a long, long sleep book by anna sheehan. A long, long sleep 2011 no life but this 2014 spinning thorns 2015 anna also has short stories published in the following anthologies. Everything would have changed radically technology and politics as well as social structure.
I listened to this book on audio, so i didnt have the experience of looking at it regularly while reading. Rosalinda had been asleep for 62 years when she was woken by. Everyone she knows is dead and the world completely changed. Welcome,you are looking at books for reading, the beauty sleep a retelling of sleeping beauty, you will able to read or download in pdf or epub books and notice some of author may have lock the live reading for some of country. The sequel to a long, long, sleep entitled no life but this was published by gollancz december 18, 2014. A long, long sleep book by anna sheehan thriftbooks. As walt whitman said, i am large, i contain multitudes. Rose, as she had been many times before, was put in for her parents.
I was a bit dubious due to it being likened to the fairy tale of sleeping beauty, with a science. The main character, sixteen year old rose, wakes from stasis, an artificial sleep, after sixty two years. Click to read more about a long, long sleep by anna sheehan. Its an engaging world, and through the way the story builds, this is the kind of book that could appeal to traditional nongenre readers, as well. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. When rose wakes up 62 years after being stassed sort of a temporary cryogenics situation, shes a human anachronism adrift from her time and everyone she knows with huge gaps in her memory. Fiction, romance, scifi it should have been a short suspendedanimation sleep. This is a fun, fast readit is a fairy tale without a classic happy ending.
This list features urban fantasy, scifi, and time travel and was created by a librarian with the brooklyn public library for a reader. No part of this book may be reproduced, transmitted. Now, her parents and her first love are long dead, and rose hailed upon her awakening as the long lost heir to an interplanetary empire is thrust alone into a future in which she is viewed as either a freak or a threat. Rosalinda fitzroy 62 evig aludt, majd egy csokra ebredt. Names, characters, places, and incidents are either products. Aug 03, 2015 if she wants any hope of a future, rose will have to confront her past in a long, long sleep 2011 by anna sheehan. A long, long sleep by anna sheehan can be summed up as sleeping beauty in space. With the twilight books but better than those what was the most interesting aspect of this story. Aug 28, 2011 overall, id have to say i enjoyed this book, but i didnt love it. Also because patrick ness and melina marchetta are really awesome. Aug 08, 2011 a long, long sleep will appeal to fans of fairy tale retellings with a twist, as well as fans of science fiction with a little bit of a dystopian swing to it, like karrs xvi. I have the book at home in hardback, on my kindle, in my classroom, and on my students kindles. A long, long sleep hardback 2011 edition anna sheehan on.
Feb 26, 2014 presenting ya retellings an epic infographic brought to you by epic reads. A long, long sleep by anna sheehan here there be books. A long long sleep download ebook pdf, epub, tuebl, mobi. Aug 09, 2011 anna sheehans a long, long sleep has one of the best first chapters ive read all year. Anna sheehan says of a long, long sleep, her first novel, i always thought the interesting thing about sleeping beauty wasnt why she was put to sleep, but what.
The book addresses serious issues including what makes a person, in addition to classic ya subjects such as first love, making it a wonderful title for a book talk, a reading list, or a class discussion. As a faerie tale, that one is rife with inherent difficulties. Looking for a book about someone being frozen and waking up. A long, long sleep is a 2011 young adult science fiction novel by anna sheehan. When the ebook was available at the library, i immediately checked it out and promptly forgot about it. Librarything is a cataloging and social networking site for booklovers. Locked away in the chemically induced slumber of a stasis tube in a forgotten subbasement, sixteenyearold rose slept straight through the dark times that killed millions and utterly changed the world she knew. However, it took my years to finally start reading it, in part i think because i was worried it wouldnt live up to the first. In the superb standalone novel a long, long sleep we saw. According to worldcat, the book is held in 210 libraries.
Rosalinda fitzroy has been asleep for sixtytwo years when she is woken by a kiss. But this time rose wakes up to find her past is long gone. Jan 22, 20 a long, long sleep by anna sheehan can be summed up as sleeping beauty in space. Looking for a book about someone being frozen and waking up in the future.
It should have been a short suspendedanimation sleep. Buy a long, long sleep book online at low prices in india. My thoughts i was very surprised when i read a long long sleep. A long long sleep unicorp 1 by anna sheehan download pdf. Elzarva az altatokeltette alomban, egy hibernalo kamraban, egy elfeledett pinceben, a 16 eves rose atalussza a sotet korszakot, amely milliok halalat kovetelte es alapjaiban valtoztatta meg az altala ismert vilagot. A long long sleep by anna sheehan candlewick, 2011 currently available genre. View it on amazon here, or listen to anna read the first chapter of a long, long sleep here note. Speculative fiction science fiction dystopia fairy tale retelling face value. Despite all my reading, i was still actually surprised by the ending. K a long long sleep unicorp 1 by anna sheehan ebook a long long sleep unicorp 1 by anna sheehan pdf download r. Imagine the story of sleeping beauty set in the future with some doctor wholike elements. Click download or read online button to get a long long sleep book now. Locked away in the chemically induced slumber of a stasis tube in a forgotten subbasement, sixteenyearold rose slept straight through.
Buy a long, long sleep unabridged by anna sheehan, angela dawe isbn. A long, long sleep is out now, published by gollancz. I loved and adored sheehan s first book, a long, long sleep, and was happy to see there was a second book in the series. A long long sleep has been translated into many languages. Anna sheehan s a long, long sleep has one of the best first chapters ive read all year. It is also based on sleeping beauty, but set as a retelling and extension of the story. Aug 18, 2011 a long, long sleep by anna sheehan can be summed up as sleeping beauty in space.
Locked away in the chemically induced slumber of a. The sequel to a long, long, sleep entitled no life but this was published by. Link a long long sleep unicorp 1 by anna sheehan b. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read a long, long sleep. Just send us an email and well put the best up on the site.
Anna sheehan says of a long, long sleep, her first novel, i always thought the interesting thing about sleeping beauty wasnt why she was put to sleep, but. I wanted the whole planet put into stasis until i could catch up. Locked away in the chemically induced slumber of a stasis tube in a forgotten. Anna sheehan says of a long, long sleep, her first novel, i always thought the interesting thing about sleeping beauty wasnt why she was put to sleep, but what she had to come to terms with afterward. December 10, 2015, anna sheehan published her novel spinning thorns with gollancz. We follow rose and she tries to make sense of her life. But this time rose wakes up to find her past is long gone and her future full of peril. Desperate to put the past behind her and adapt to her new world, rose finds. A long long sleep by anna sheehan it should have been a short suspendedanimation sleep. No life but this isbn 9780575104785 pdf epub anna sheehan.
Oct 02, 2011 rosalinda has been in stasis for sixtytwo years, and the world has left her behind in the interim. Everything would have changed radicallytechnology and politics as well as social structure. Beauty sleep a retelling of sleeping beauty download pdf. I read that first page and couldnt put the book down for the rest of the afternoon. It also has a companion sequel called no life but this.