Six-Gun Snow White

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 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. Read Six-Gun Snow White – kino-fada.fr Take fairy tale mythology, the sideways structure of Native American folklore, a Wild West setting, weave it through with themes on race and gender and wrap it in Valente s wordsmithing, and you ll have Six Gun Snow White. A body can only deliver up the truth its bones know Its blood, which is its history My body is my truth, and I have laid it out as evidence on the table of my father s reputation, for by know you may have guessed my next revelation from The Creation of Snow WhiteThis bea Take fairy tale mythology, the sideways structure of Native American folklore, a Wild West setting, weave it through with themes on race and gender and wrap it in Valente s wordsmithing, and you ll have Six Gun Snow White. A body can only deliver up the truth its bones know Its blood, which is its history My body is my truth, and I have laid it out as evidence on the table of my father s reputation, fo...When a half breed girl saddled with the nickname Snow White has had enough of her wicked stepmother, she goes on the run in the Wild West As she lives by her gun and her wits, will past catch up with her Six Gun Snow White is a retelling of Snow White as a western It hearkens to earlier, non sanitized, pre Disney versions of the tale Mr H, Snow White s father, buys her mother, Gun Who Sings, from her tribe Gun Who Sings dies in childbirth and things are as good as could be expected until th When a half breed girl saddled with the nickname Snow White has had enough of her wicked stepmother, she goes on the run in the Wild West As she lives by her gun and her wits, will past catch up with her Six Gun Snow White is a retelling of Snow White as a western It hearkens to earlier, non sanitized, pre Disney versions of the tale Mr H, Snow White s father, buys her mother, Gun Who Sings, from her tribe Gun Who Sings dies in childbirth and things are as good as could be expected until the second Mrs H moves in.Valente really made me care about Snow White s hardships, both before she went on the run and after Her stepmother really needed a bullet to the brain from Rose Red Catherynne Val...Catherynne M Valente must be one of the most imaginative and talented writers in speculative fiction in the last ever so many years.Six Gun Snow White, her 2013 novella 160 pages re tells the old German folk tale made famous by the Brothers Grimm and Walt Disney, but in a similar way that Stephen King did with The Gunslinger, by casting a fantasy story into a western Unlike King s surreal fantasy with western themes and settings, though, Valente has this Snow White, as a Native American daug Catherynne M Valente must be one of the most imaginative and talented writers in speculative fiction in the last ever so many years.Six Gun Snow White, her 2013 novella 160 pages re tells the old German folk tale made famous by the Brothers Grimm and Walt Disney, but in a similar way that Stephen King did with The Gunslinger, by casting a fantasy story into a western Unlike King s surreal fantasy with western themes and settings, though, Valente has this Snow White, as a Native America...I think this is an excellent novel with or without its being a retelling of Snow White.Unfortunately, I m not and never have been a huge fan of Westerns That being said, I was only able to get into it as far as Cat Valente could carry it, which was quite far, indeed The best things I can say about it is that this was never tongue in cheek or a lackadaisical mapping of the fairytale into recognizable parody It felt like a serious and heartfelt rendition of magical realism, where w...7 10 I have noticed recently the popularity of spoof novels, mashing together Jane Austen and zombies or Abraham Lincoln with vampires I am not much tempted to give them a try, having low expectations from the lack of originality and from the low brow cheap type of humor The reason I mentioned them is that I want to stress that Catherynne Valente...Bloody brilliant This gun slinging girl is no Snow White.unless red juicy apples are blood pumping hearts and the 7 dwarves are 7 coyotes The girl was born with hair black as coal, lips red as blood and skin reflecting that of her mothers She is the daughter of Gun That Sings , the Crow Indian Bride her father took from Montana Territory to California Living a sheltered live in a zoo that daddy built, she never is allowed to leave the grounds and has a gun she calls Rose Red Since her mothe Bloody bri...Rating 4.9 of fiveThis glittering reimagination of a foundational myth wins an almost perfect score from me Go take a gander Valente is a reliable source of wonderful and creative takes and re takes on fairy tales, but she s also a wordsmith of astounding facility.Catherynne Valente is such a master prose smith that anything she writes is worth reading, but I run hot and cold on the stories she actually tells Sometimes her stories just seem to get lost in the craft of telling them Six Gun Snow White holds together admirably as a Western retelling of Snow White, with Snow being the half breed daughter of a rich silver baron and a Crow woman.Pampered and spoiled and kept hidden away in an upper floor out of sight by Daddy, Snow lives a lonely but untrouble Catherynne Valente is such a master prose smith that anything she writes is worth reading, but I run hot and cold on the stories she actually tells Sometimes her stories just seem to get lost in the craft of telling them Six Gun Snow White holds together admirably as a Western retelling of Snow White, with Snow being the half breed daughter of a rich silver baron and a Crow woman.Pampered and spoiled and kept hidden away in an upper floor out of sight by Daddy, Snow lives a lonely but untroubled life until daddy marries Mrs H Aka the Evil Stepmother.When she hit me, she said she loved me When she scratched my face, she said she loved me And let me tell you, Mrs H loved me most of all the day she locked me in my room with no lamps or candles because I looked too long at a groomsman and that s the mark of a whore, a slattern with a jackal for a mother, hellion trash with an animal heart For a week I had no bath or...Words Wordswordswords Cat Valente is one of those authors that uses lots of words, many of them pretty But for me it s fucking difficult to extract the story from all them thar pretty words Are you in there, story I feel like you must be Everyone raves about your gorgeous lush elegant poetic prose, but what good are all these beautiful sentences if I can t parse their meaning Calm down, sentences, you re giving me a headache Cat Valente writes books that I want to love I read what ot Words Wordswordswords Cat Valente is one of those authors that uses lots of words, many of them pretty But for me it s fucking difficult to extract the story from all them thar pretty words Are you in there, story I feel like you must be Everyone raves about your gorgeous lush elegant poetic prose, but what good are all these beautiful sentences if I can t parse their meaning Calm down, sentences, you re giving me a headache Cat Valente writes books that I want to love I read what other people have to say about them and think Yes I want that, too But then I finish them feeling unfulfilled and wishing whatever s missing in this heart of mine would allow me to love them like others do Pretty but vacant 3 stars One for sorrow, two for joy for the story underneath the overdone...To be honest I didn t really go into this with any specific expectation as the only other book by Catherynne Valente I had read was The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland and that was a truly beautiful but also a very bizarre story Of course, I did expect at least some parallels to Snow White, but this is quite a lotthan that becuase it s also a weird western take on the whole affair, and again it s beautifully written.We follow the main character as she narrates her story of her early li To be honest I didn t really go into this with any specific expectation as the only other book by Catherynne Valente I had read was The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland and that was a truly beautiful but also a very bizarre story Of course, I did expect at least some parallels to Snow White, but this is quite a lotthan that becuase it s also a weird western take on the whole affair, and again it s beautifully written.We follow the main character as she narrates her story of her early life and her parents r...

• English
• 14 September 2018
Catherynne M. Valente
• Hardcover
• 168 pages
• 1596065524
• Catherynne M. Valente
• Six-Gun Snow White