- Snow White (Tale), Adaptations, American fiction (fictional works by one author)
Novel of the absurd, paraphrasing the familiar fairy tale. Modern setting.
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Cool, prestige, ironic and comic.
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- unpretentiousprestige
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- contemporarynostalgic
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About the book
- Author
- Donald Barthelme
- First published
- 1967
- Pages
- 181
- Publisher
- Atheneum, Touchstone, Bantam
- Editions
- 4
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780684824796
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First sentence
“SHE is a tall dark beauty containing a great many beauty spots: one above the breast, one above the belly, one above the knee, one above the ankle, one above the buttock, one on the back of the neck.”
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