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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, Helen Oyeyemi
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- Année de publication
- 2014
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- Titre
- Boy, Snow, Bird
- Langue
- Anglais
- Auteurs
- Helen Oyeyemi
- Éditeur
- Riverhead
- Publié
- 2014
- Format
- rigide
- Pages
- 308
- ISBN10
- 1594631395
- ISBN13
- 9781594631399
- Séries
- Mots clés
- Fiction, Livres pour enfants, Fantasy, Romans historiques, Contes, Littérature anglaise, Race, Racisme, Réalisme magique, Identité, Symbolisme
- Première publication
- 2014
- Titre original
- Boy, Snow, Bird
- Évaluation
- 3,35 sur 5
- Description
- 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