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Six-Gun Snow White Paperback – 10 November 2015

by Catherynne M Valente (Author), Charlie Bowater (Illustrator)
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A New York Times bestselling author offers a brilliant reinvention of one of the best-known fairy tales of all time with Snow White as a gunslinger in the mythical Wild West.

Forget the dark, enchanted forest. Picture instead a masterfully evoked Old West where you are more likely to find coyotes as the seven dwarves. Insert into this scene a plain-spoken, appealing narrator who relates the history of our heroine's parents--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. Although her mother's life ended as hers began, so begins a remarkable tale: equal parts heartbreak and strength. This girl has been born into a world with no place for a half-native, half-white child. After being hidden for years, a very wicked stepmother finally gifts her with the name Snow White, referring to the pale skin she will never have. Filled with fascinating glimpses through the fabled looking glass and a close-up look at hard living in the gritty gun-slinging West, this is an utterly enchanting story...at once familiar and entirely new.

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From New York Times-bestselling author Catherynne M. Valente comes a brilliant reinvention of one the best known fairy tales of all time. In the novella Six-Gun Snow White, Valente transports the title's heroine to a masterfully evoked Old West where Coyote is just as likely to be found as the seven dwarves.

A plain-spoken, appealing narrator relates the history of her parents 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. With her mother's death in childbirth, so begins a heroine's tale equal parts heartbreak and strength. This girl has been born into a world with no place for a half-native, half-white child. After being hidden for years, a very wicked stepmother finally gifts her with the name Snow White, referring to the pale skin she will never have. Filled with fascinating glimpses through the fabled looking glass and a close-up look at hard living in the gritty gun-slinging West, readers will be enchanted by this story at once familiar and entirely new.

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Catherynne M. Valente is an acclaimed New York Times bestselling creator of over forty works of fantasy and science fiction, including the Fairyland novels and The Glass Town Game. She has been nominated for the Nebula and World Fantasy awards, and has won the Otherwise (formerly Tiptree), Hugo, and Andre Norton award. She lives on a small island off the coast of Maine with her partner, young son, and a shockingly large cat with most excellent tufts.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ 1481444735
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ S&s/Saga Press (10 November 2015)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 160 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9781481444736
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1481444736
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 13.97 x 1.02 x 20.96 cm
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Catherynne M. Valente is the New York Times bestselling author of over two dozen works of fiction and poetry, including Palimpsest, the Orphan’s Tales series, Deathless, Radiance, and the crowdfunded phenomenon The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Own Making. She is the winner of the Andre Norton, Tiptree, Mythopoeic, Rhysling, Lambda, Locus and Hugo awards and has been a finalist the Nebula and World Fantasy Awards. She lives on an island off the coast of Maine with her partner, two dogs, two enormous cats, four chickens, several spinning wheels with ulterior motives, an uncompleted master's degree, and a secret door in the back of her wardrobe.

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Seitenhain
4.0 out of 5 stars Twisted!
Reviewed in Germany on 31 January 2020
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Diese dünne Novelle aus der magischen Feder Cat Valentes ist eine kreative Neuerzählung von Schneewittchen - im Wilden Westen!

In dieser Version ist Snow die Tochter einer Indianerin und eines Siedlers und ihre böse Stiefmutter gibt ihr den Namen Snow White, weil ihre Haut niemals weiß sein wird. Nett.^^

Auch alle anderen bekannten Elemente sind vorhanden: die Bergminen, der Jägersmann - und doch sind sie alle völlig neu interpretiert.

Ich mochte dieses kleine Bändchen sehr. Snow ist kein zerbrechliches Mädchen, das im Wald von Zwergen beschützt werden muss, nein, sie hat eine perlenbesetzte Knarre, arbeitet selbst in den Minen und hat daher die Muskelkraft, sich gegen jeden Mann zu verteidigen. Coool.

Ein Manko gibt es jedoch: Es gibt das Büchlein nicht auf Deutsch und es ist etwas schwierig, es auf Englisch zu lesen, denn Valente schreibt in Dialekt und Akzent, lässt manchmal Wörter unter den Tisch fallen, verneint doppelt oder schreibt, wie ein Cowboy mit Kaugummi im Mund babbeln würde.

"No one can tell a true story about themselves."
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Rayne
5.0 out of 5 stars Valente has a brain made of magic
Reviewed in the United States on 3 March 2016
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If I could eat Cathrynne M. Valente's prose for all my meals every day, I would. And I'd die fat and happy. I was less sure about this before I read it, though I am a huge fan of fairy tale retellings I don't tend to do as well with Wild West settings. I'm glad I overcame my bias. Valente uses her brilliant prose to turn a scathing eye to society's rampant mistreatment of those who aren't white and male. Snow White is half Native American and is treated abysmally by her stepmother and society at large, though she can usually punch the latter in the face periodically. Her stepmother isn't one dimensionally evil either, which is very refreshing. She's experienced her own mistreatment as a woman, though a white one.

This treatment of the seven dwarves is my absolute favorite I've ever seen. Read it and you'll see.

This is a brilliant, gritty retelling of a fairy tale that has more cultural association with binary good and evil. Sweetness and light versus bitterness and dark. This upends the tropes while staying brilliantly faithful to the spirit of the story. You don't want to miss this!
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L. Holloway
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 3 November 2014
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Catherynne m Valente, never a word wrong
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Karissa Eckert
4.0 out of 5 stars Unique, enjoyable and stark wild west retelling of snow white.
Reviewed in the United States on 28 February 2018
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I am a huge Valente fan and was excited to read this retelling of Snow White by her. This was a stark, yet well done retelling of Snow White set in the Wild West. I ended up enjoying it.

The whole story is set in Nevada in the gold-rush era. Initially Snow is pretty much left to her own devices and pampered by her much absent father. Everything is all good until he remarries and Snow’s new stepmom is determined to wash the sin off Snow and turn her into a real lady. Of course our free-spirited Snow can’t tolerate this and ends up flying off to have adventures of her own.

This is a gritty and stark retelling of the Snow White tale and is told in a beautiful yet simple style. Snow comes across as both naive and extremely wise in the ways of man as the story progresses. I loved Snow’s voice and the way the story was told. It was poetic in its own way.

Overall I would recommend to those who enjoy fairy tale retellings. This is a unique retelling of Snow White in a Wild West setting. The writing is somewhat poetic in its starkness and is a bit ambiguous at times. I really enjoyed it and thought the way it was written really conveyed Snow’s personality and environment well.
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Louise @foxesfairytales
4.0 out of 5 stars Completely unique!
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 30 December 2017
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This is the third book by Catherynne M. Valente that I've read in the past month or so, and it's my favourite so far.

I love the way the story has been written, the language and the voice are so strong -- both in the part narrated by Snow White and the part in third person. Valente's prose is absolutely stunning as usual, I think she must agonize over every word. It's full of colourful language and little turns of phrase that really sell both the Wild West setting and the fairy tale aspects. Plus, the idea to write a Snow White retelling as a western is completely genius! It's so original, I don't think I've seen anything similar. I loved the way aspects of the fairy tale were pulled in -- the seven women of Oh-Be-Joyful, Charming the horse, the Pinkerton huntsman -- and the commentary on women and their lot in that life, which was woven through.

I really fell in love with Snow White as a character, from the adorable little girl who tries to bargain for her step mother's affection -- "If you love me, I'll love you back" -- to the street-smart practical person she becomes -- “Of course she cheated. Don't be silly. Snow White spent half her growing years shuffling cards for no one. She can cut false and she can cut true, but she wasn't going to lose when it counted.” There's something honest and raw about her, that feels completely real rather than a made-up character, especially as 'Snow White' could so easily fall into a caricature.

My single complaint is that the very last section, felt a little out of place to me. I wasn't keen on how the story suddenly time-skipped, or how the resolution was so unrelated to the rest of the story. I would also have liked to see Snow White spend more time with -- and connect with -- the women of Oh-Be-Joyful, and maybe even Deer Boy.

Overall though, I really loved Six-Gun Snow White and can't wait to see which of Valente's works I'll pick up next.
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