This novel is a reimagining of the fairy tale Snow White recast as a story of family secrets, race, beauty, and vanity set in the United States during the 1950s and 1960s. In the winter of 1953, Boy Novak arrives by chance in a small town in Massachusetts, looking, she …
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This novel is a reimagining of the fairy tale Snow White recast as a story of family secrets, race, beauty, and vanity set in the United States during the 1950s and 1960s. In the winter of 1953, Boy Novak arrives by chance in a small town in Massachusetts, looking, she believes, for beauty, the opposite of the life she has left behind in New York. She marries a local widower and becomes stepmother to his winsome daughter, Snow Whitman. A wicked stepmother is a creature Boy never imagined she would become, but when the birth of Boy's daughter, Bird, who is dark-skinned, exposes the Whitmans as light-skinned African Americans passing for white, elements of the familiar tale of aesthetic obsession begin to play themselves out . Now Boy, Snow, and Bird must confront the tyranny of the mirror to ask how much power surfaces really hold. -- From book jacket
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Boy, Snow, Bird
316, pagine
lingua English
Pubblicato il 2015 da Penguin.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-14-318744-8ISBN copiato!
- Numero OCLC:
- 894750834
Boy, Snow, Bird
367, pagine
lingua English
Pubblicato il 2014
- ISBN:
- 978-1-62899-160-4ISBN copiato!
- Numero OCLC:
- 874735659
Boy, snow, bird
308, pagine
lingua English
Pubblicato il 2014 da Riverhead Books, a member of Penguin Group (USA).
- ISBN:
- 978-1-59463-139-9ISBN copiato!
- Numero OCLC:
- 852251423
Boy, Snow, Bird: A Novel
Brossura, 336 pagine
Pubblicato il 2015 da Riverhead.
- ISBN:
- 978-1-59463-340-9ISBN copiato!
Boy, Snow, Bird
audio cd, 1 pagine
Pubblicato da Recorded Books, Inc. and Blackstone Publishing.
- ISBN:
- 978-1-6644-2756-3ISBN copiato!
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