An edition of Boy, Snow, Bird (2014)

Boy, snow, bird

a novel

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An edition of Boy, Snow, Bird (2014)

Boy, snow, bird

a novel

  • 3.7 (7 ratings) ·
  • 31 Want to read
  • 1 Currently reading
  • 7 Have read

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

Publish Date
Language
English
Pages
308

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Cover of: Boy, Snow, Bird: A Novel
Boy, Snow, Bird: A Novel
2015, Riverhead
Paperback
Cover of: Boy, Snow, Bird
Boy, Snow, Bird
Aug 24, 2015, Picador, imusti
paperback
Cover of: Boy, Snow, Bird
Boy, Snow, Bird
2015, Penguin
in English
Cover of: Boy, Snow, Bird
Boy, Snow, Bird
2014
in English - Center Point Large Print edition.
Cover of: Boy, Snow, Bird
Boy, Snow, Bird
Feb 27, 2014, Picador
paperback
Cover of: Boy, Snow, Bird
Boy, Snow, Bird
Feb 27, 2014, Picador
hardcover
Cover of: Boy, snow, bird
Boy, snow, bird: a novel
2014, Riverhead Books, a member of Penguin Group (USA)
in English
Cover of: Boy, Snow, Bird
Boy, Snow, Bird
2014-04-06, Riverhead Books
Ebook in English
Cover of: Boy, Snow, Bird
Boy, Snow, Bird: A Novel
May 15, 2014, Recorded Books, Inc. and Blackstone Publishing
audio cd

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Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
823/.92
Library of Congress
PR6115.Y49 B69 2014, PR6115.Y49 B69 2014eb, PR6115.Y49B69 2014

The Physical Object

Pagination
308 pages
Number of pages
308

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL26883618M
Internet Archive
boysnowbird0000oyey
ISBN 10
1594631395
ISBN 13
9781594631399
LCCN
2013025053
OCLC/WorldCat
852251423, 869565988

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