Boy, snow, bird: a novel
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Published:
New York : Riverhead Books, a member of Penguin Group (USA), 2014.
Format:
Book
Physical Desc:
308 pages ; 22 cm
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781594631399 : HRD, 1594631395 : HRD, 9781594631399 (HRD), 1594631395 (HRD), 9781594631399, 1594631395
Notes
Description
"A reimagining of the Snow White story set in the United States during the 1950s and 1960s."--,Provided by publisher.
Description
"From the prizewinning author of Mr. Fox, the Snow White fairy tale brilliantly recast as a story of family secrets, race, beauty, and vanity. In the winter of 1953, Boy Novak arrives by chance in a small town in Massachusetts, looking, she believes, forbeauty-the opposite of the life she's 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'd become, but elements of the familiar tale of aesthetic obsession begin to play themselves out when the birth of Boy's daughter, Bird, who is dark-skinned, exposes the Whitmans as light-skinned African Americans passing for white. Among them, Boy, Snow, and Bird confront the tyranny of the mirror to ask how much power surfaces really hold."
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APA Citation (style guide)
Oyeyemi, H. (2014). Boy, snow, bird: a novel. Riverhead Books, a member of Penguin Group (USA).
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Oyeyemi, Helen. 2014. Boy, Snow, Bird: A Novel. Riverhead Books, a member of Penguin Group (USA).
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Oyeyemi, Helen, Boy, Snow, Bird: A Novel. Riverhead Books, a member of Penguin Group (USA), 2014.
MLA Citation (style guide)Oyeyemi, Helen. Boy, Snow, Bird: A Novel. Riverhead Books, a member of Penguin Group (USA), 2014.
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