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product_id: 20746393
title: "Six-Gun Snow White"
brand: "catherynne m. valente"
price: "R448"
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reviews_count: 10
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# Six-Gun Snow White

**Brand:** catherynne m. valente
**Price:** R448
**Availability:** ✅ In Stock

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- **What is this?** Six-Gun Snow White by catherynne m. valente
- **How much does it cost?** R448 with free shipping
- **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship
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## Description

Six-Gun Snow White

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Beautifully crafted grit and sorrow
  

*by W***T on Reviewed in the United States on April 1, 2013*

Valente turns her craftsmanship to the story of Snow White and the setting of American West, and I tell you, it's gorgeous. The language is jaw-dropping and painfully true sometimes."She forbade me to eat sweets or any good thing til I got thin as a dog and could hardly stand I was so damn hungry-- there, now you're beautiful, she said and I did not know if it was my dog-bones showing or my crawling in front of her begging for a miserable apple to stop my belly screaming that made me fair."The other characters are sharp and two-dimensional, like shadow-puppets in Snow White's world. I thought that choice worked out well stylistically, but it gave you less to hang on to if you are the sort of person who connects to characters. Snow White herself is not so much a character as a set of actions and reactions, and I'm not sure I know how to describe the difference to you, but I know it's there.That said, I really enjoyed this book, and Snow White, and the huntsman and the deer and the world, and all that. But I felt let down at the end. It was all entropy and glass coffin and it felt strangely abrupt. It's not bad, it's just not what I was craving from the story.My favorite part of the book was when Snow White finds the town of women, Oh-Be-Joyful. It was run by crones and the best kind of witches, the kind with no magic but lots of experience."Life's still stupid but we got free of story out here under the beeches and the Big Dipper. We had enough of it, of things happening one after another and no end in sight. Of reversals and falling in love and tragic flaws and by God if I see another motif in my business I will shoot it dead. The stories that happen to people like us aren't worth my back teeth. So if you want it you can have a nice life here. You can wake up next to Jackson til the end of days and the raising of the glorious dead. You can eat squirrel pancakes out of Ephie's pan and watch the moon go up and down. It's a kind of magic, but then most things are. But story is an eager f****** beaver and someday soon someone will come knocking for you and you'd better just say no thank you is all I'm saying. Whatever's on the other side of that let me in will burn you hollow and lick the ash for the last of you. The worst thing in the world is having to go back to the dark you shook off.""If I see another motif in my business I will shoot it dead." I think I have been waiting for two decades for a character to say that.So what I'm saying about this book is that it's beautiful, and I found the ending unsatisfying, but perhaps that was the point.Read if: You love Valente's work. You have a hankerin' for interesting commentary on all sorts of myths.Skip if: You are an impatient reader, you want to love people in your books.Also read: Rapunzel's Revenge for another old-west fairy tale.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Unique, enjoyable and stark wild west retelling of snow white.
  

*by K***T on Reviewed in the United States on February 28, 2018*

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.

### ⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Not your grandma's Snow White
  

*by S***Z on Reviewed in the United States on November 3, 2022*

It was an interesting read.  It did not hold my interest.  But I did like the cover.

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