Circles (Beauty and the Beast zine)

For other fanworks of the same name, see Circles.

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Title:	Circles
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Author(s):	Adele Turner
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Date(s):	May 1994
Medium:	print
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Genre:	gen
Fandom:	Beauty and the Beast (TV)
Language:	English
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Circles is a gen 103-page Beauty and the Beast (TV) novel by Adele Turner.

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Summaries

From the author:

The year is 2008. Young Jacob is in his freshman year at Radcliffe College. Vincent and Catharine have their happy life Below, and their children--and their friends' children--are coming into their own. This is a classic continuation of Vincent and Catherine' story; a story of the tunnel world, its inhabitants and its Helpers. Father and Mary, Narcissa and Mouse, Nancy and Jenny, Elliot and Peter, all your old friends are here to celebrate Winterfest, renew old ties, and to remember "that even the greatest darkness is nothing, so long as we share the light.

Also from the author:

This story began as a one page vignette, quickly took control and dragged me kicking and screaming for page after page while I held on for dear life. It begins in the year 2008. Catherine and Vincent have their happy life, and their children and their friends' children are coming into their own.

Reactions and Reviews

In a story that varies between exchanges of letters and narrative, this placid, literate tale chronicles a transitional time in the lives of Vincent, Catherine, and their loved ones, pegged to the return of son Jacob from college for Winterfest. Jacob has made certain decisions about his future life—he wants to become an archeologist, then return Below for good—with which his parents, particularly Vincent, must come to terms. Paired to this, Jacob's roommate Stan Burch, the daughter of Elliot and an unnamed, deceased mother, also has made decisions with which he and his father find more difficulty agreeing upon, since their relationship has long been strained and the plans don't include Stan's joining his father's business empire, as Elliot had always intended. Instead, that role seems to be slowly devolving upon Jacob's sister Caroline, at 15 very impatient to get going with life, whatever that may prove to include.

There are striking glimpses of other familiar characters, particularly Narcissa, but also Father, William, Joe, Edie, Isaac, Nancy, Laura, et al., in which all are satisfactorily paired off with somebody (Father and Mary have married, for instance) or else, like Pascal and Narcissa, contentedly alone. With its good dialogue and characterization, the story has virtually no conflict of any sort and all potential conflicts are resolved almost before they emerge. Worries are dispelled into a resignation that young people must choose their own way and parents can only wish them well and hope for the best. These hopes are not disappointed. So this is a very quiet, calm, peaceable story indeed.

Occasional artwork by Terrie Milliman and Mickey Sayles.