Bibliograph

Six-gun Snow White, Catherynne M. Valente ; with illustrations by Charlie Bowater

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Six-gun Snow White, Catherynne M. Valente ; with illustrations by Charlie Bowater

Language

eng

Illustrations

illustrations

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no index present

Literary Form

novels

Main title

Six-gun Snow White

Oclc number

903511026

Responsibility statement

Catherynne M. Valente ; with illustrations by Charlie Bowater

Summary

A retelling of "Snow White" set in the "gritty gun-slinging west."Her parents were a Nevada silver baron who forced the Crow people to give up one of their most beautiful daughters, Gun That Sings, in marriage to him; her mother's life ended as hers began. Our narrator, born into a world with no place for a half-native, half-white child, is hidden for years by a very wicked stepmother who gifts her with the name Snow White, referring to the pale skin she will never have. Now she's a gunslinger in West that's wilder than any you can evoke...

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