E-book
The snow child : a novel
Record details
- ISBN: 0316192961
- ISBN: 9780316192965
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (389 pages)
remote - Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Little, Brown and Co., 2012.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | "A Reagan Arthur book." |
| Study Program Information Note: | Accelerated Reader AR UG 5.2 15 188676. |
| Source of Description Note: | Description based on print version record. |
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| Subject: | Frontier and pioneer life Alaska Fiction Fairy tales Adaptations Alaska History 1867-1959 Fiction |
| Genre: | Electronic books. Historical fiction. Magic realism (Literature) |
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Summary:
Alaska, 1920: a brutal place to homestead, and especially tough for recent arrivals Jack and Mabel. Childless, they are drifting apart--he breaking under the weight of the work of the farm; she crumbling from loneliness and despair. In a moment of levity during the season's first snowfall, they build a child out of snow. The next morning the snow child is gone--but they glimpse a young, blonde-haired girl running through the trees. This little girl, who calls herself Faina, seems to be a child of the woods. She hunts with a red fox at her side, skims lightly across the snow, and somehow survives alone in the Alaskan wilderness. As Jack and Mabel struggle to understand this child who could have stepped from the pages of a fairy tale, they come to love her as their own daughter. But in this beautiful, violent place things are rarely as they appear, and what they eventually learn about Faina will transform all of them.--From Amazon.
