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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Boy, snow, bird
    sub title: a novel
  name:
    name part: Oyeyemi, Helen.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: Fantasy fiction.
  genre: Fairy tales-Adaptations-Fiction.
  genre: Adaptations.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2014
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 308 pages ; 22 cm
  abstract: "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, for beauty-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. Dazzlingly inventive and powerfully moving, Boy, Snow, Bird is an astonishing and enchanting novel. With breathtaking feats of imagination, Helen Oyeyemi confirms her place as one of the most original and dynamic literary voices of our time."--
  abstract: "A reimagining of the Snow White story set in the United States during the 1950s and 1960s"--
  note: Helen Oyeyemi.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us-ma
  subject:
    topic: Fairy tales
    genre: Adaptations
  subject:
    topic: City and town life
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Ethnicity
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Identity
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Beauty, Personal
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Novak, Boy (Fictitious character)
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Whitman, Arturo (Fictitious character)
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Whitman, Snow (Fictitious character)
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Whitman, Bird (Fictitious character)
  subject:
    topic: FICTION
    topic: Literary
  subject:
    topic: FICTION
    topic: Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology
  subject:
    topic: FICTION
    topic: General
  subject:
    topic: Fairy tales
  subject:
    topic: FICTION / Literary
  subject:
    topic: FICTION / Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology
  subject:
    topic: FICTION / General
  classification: PR6115.Y49 B69 2014
  classification: 823/.92
  classification: FIC019000 FIC010000 FIC000000
  classification: I561.45
  identifier: 9781594631399
  identifier: 1594631395
  identifier: 9781447254225
  identifier: 1447254228
  identifier: 2013025053
  identifier: Penguin Group USA, Attn: Order Processing 405 Murray Hill Pkwy, East Rutherford, NJ, USA, 07073-2136
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 130705
    record change date: 20231016183246.6
    record identifier: in00004748519
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng