The Resource Boy, snow, bird, Helen Oyeyemi
Boy, snow, bird, Helen Oyeyemi
Resource Information
The item Boy, snow, bird, Helen Oyeyemi represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in DC Public Library System.This item is available to borrow from 6 library branches.
Resource Information
The item Boy, snow, bird, Helen Oyeyemi represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in DC Public Library System.
This item is available to borrow from 6 library branches.
- Summary
- 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'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 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
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First Riverhead trade paperback edition.
- Extent
- 316 pages
- Isbn
- 9781594633409
- Label
- Boy, snow, bird
- Title
- Boy, snow, bird
- Statement of responsibility
- Helen Oyeyemi
- Subject
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- Fairy tales
- Fairy tales -- Adaptations
- Fantasy fiction
- Fantasy fiction
- Fantasy fiction
- Fantasy fiction
- Fiction
- Massachusetts
- Massachusetts -- Fiction
- Adaptations
- Passing (Identity)
- Passing (Identity) -- Fiction
- Passing (Identité) -- Romans, nouvelles, etc
- Stepmothers
- Stepmothers -- Fiction
- Massachusetts -- Romans, nouvelles, etc
- Belles-mères -- Romans, nouvelles, etc
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- 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'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 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
- Cataloging source
- JOY
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Oyeyemi, Helen
- Dewey number
- 823/.92
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PR6115.Y49
- LC item number
- B69 2015
- Literary form
- novels
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Fairy tales
- Passing (Identity)
- Stepmothers
- Massachusetts
- Passing (Identité)
- Belles-mères
- Massachusetts
- Fairy tales
- Passing (Identity)
- Stepmothers
- Massachusetts
- Label
- Boy, snow, bird, Helen Oyeyemi
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- ocn904257873
- Dimensions
- 21 cm
- Edition
- First Riverhead trade paperback edition.
- Extent
- 316 pages
- Isbn
- 9781594633409
- Lccn
- 2015300193
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Label
- Boy, snow, bird, Helen Oyeyemi
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- ocn904257873
- Dimensions
- 21 cm
- Edition
- First Riverhead trade paperback edition.
- Extent
- 316 pages
- Isbn
- 9781594633409
- Lccn
- 2015300193
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
Subject
- Fairy tales
- Fairy tales -- Adaptations
- Fantasy fiction
- Fantasy fiction
- Fantasy fiction
- Fantasy fiction
- Fiction
- Massachusetts
- Massachusetts -- Fiction
- Adaptations
- Passing (Identity)
- Passing (Identity) -- Fiction
- Passing (Identité) -- Romans, nouvelles, etc
- Stepmothers
- Stepmothers -- Fiction
- Massachusetts -- Romans, nouvelles, etc
- Belles-mères -- Romans, nouvelles, etc
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Library Locations
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Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial LibraryBorrow it901 G Street NW, Washington, DC, 20001, US38.8986949 -77.0247823
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Shepherd Park (Juanita E. Thornton) LibraryBorrow it7420 Georgia Ave. NW, Washington, DC, 20012, US38.9803141 -77.026951
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Tenley-Friendship LibraryBorrow it4450 Wisconsin Ave. NW, Washington, DC, 20016, US38.9476208 -77.0799279
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