About this title: In this fairy tale adaptation, horror specialist Lee retrofits the well-known tale of Snow White with notions borrowed from several versions--the Walt Disney film, the original Grimm version, and others--along with her own take on the story.
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Tor Books
Date Published: 2000-12
ISBN-13:9780312869939ISBN:0312869932
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Description: Fine New in Fine jacket. SOFT COVER, Fine/Fine, Tor Books, 2001, 0.87 in. H x 8.19 in. L x 5.28 in. W, 10.6 oz. This copy has no signs of use, is in Excellent Condition Overall. Note: expect tanning of any paperback more than a few years old, regardless of condition. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Tor Books
Date Published: 12/7/01
ISBN-13:9780312875497ISBN:0312875495
Description: Very Good+ 2001 Trade Paperback. Cvr: light wear at edges/cornertips. Text: no highlight or underlining. No spine crease. PMLF-LEEO6F1. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Tor Books/Tom Doherty, New York, New York, U.S. A
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9780312875497ISBN:0312875495
Description: Very Good. Lavender & yellow soft cover. Trade paperback. The Fairy Tale Series created by Terri Windling. A dark, sensual retelling of "Snow White". read more
Description: [0-312-87549-5] [date not known], later printing., later printing. (Trade paperback) Fine. Cover illustration by Thomas Canty. (Dark Fantasy) read more
Edition: Second Printing
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Tor Books A Tom Doherty Book, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9780312875497ISBN:0312875495
Description: Cover Art by Thomas Canty. Fine. No Jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. A dark, sensual retelling of Snow White. New, unread condition. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Tor Books
Date Published: 2001-12-01
ISBN-13:9780312875497ISBN:0312875495
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Tor Books
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9780312875497ISBN:0312875495
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Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Tor Books, New York, New York
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9780312869939ISBN:0312869932
Description: Fine in Near Fine jacket. 8vo-8"-9" Tall. First edition hard cover with dust jacket, FINE/NF. Unmarked copy. Dust jacket slightly rubbed at extremes, in new mylar cover. 319pp. Dust jacket art by Thomas Canty. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Tor Books
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9780312869939ISBN:0312869932
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Description: Very Good. Front/back cover and spine shows minor signs of wear of dust jacket. Used-Very Good. Trinity City Books ships from the Dallas, Texas area daily, Mon-Fri and fully guarantee our products. read more
"I really enjoyed this book, a radically different retelling of the Snow White fairy tale. It was very dark and sensual and held my interest through the end."
"A disjointed, somewhat pretentious retelling of the Snow White fairy tale, White as Snow tries to bring the tale back to it's roots before the story was modified and sanatized by the likes of the Brothers Grimm and Walt Disney. Unfortunately, the author tried to bring in too many elements from too many different incarnations of the tale and the story suffered. Specifically, the attempted fusion between the Snow White tale and the Persephone myth (where a young goddess is abducted to be the bride of Hades, lord of the underworld, while her mother Demetria, goddess of the Earth and the harvest searches frantically for her) was not a good fit in my opinion. The number of times rape featured as a plot point became questionable, both in terms of credibility and good taste. And the passive, disturbed mental states of both mother and daughter made both characters bizarre and unsympathetic. While I have enjoyed other books in this series, I could have happily skipped this installment."
"Tanith Lee's White as Snow is elegent and sensual and terrible. Not terrible as in badly written, but terrible in it's absence of feeling, hideous in it's coldness. It's a fairy tale in which there can be no truly happy ending.
This version of Snow White is twined with the myth of Demeter and Persephone. It begins with Arpazia, the little girl who becomes the witch queen, then follows with Coira, her unwanted daughter, product of rape. In fact, about halfway through the book, I lost track of how many rapes had been committed against one of the women or the other.
It's a tale in which you can't tell the difference between love and hate, and the tiny pinprick of light the author finally offers in the last page is not enough to banish the clinging darkness."
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