![]() ![]() Agent: Howard Morhaim, Howard Morhaim Literary Agency. ![]() Any attempt to derive a simple message from this work would be an injustice to the originality of the atmosphere, the complexity of the interplay of its elements, and the simple pleasure of savoring Valente’s exuberant writing. Enter a pursuing Pinkerton’s detective, a pony named Charming, seven kick-ass outlaw ladies, and a variety of showdowns as Snow White searches for meaning, love, and a semblance of belonging. ![]() Picture instead a masterfully evoked Old West where you are more likely to find coyotes as the seven dwarves. H’s mirror suggests they share the yoke of female subservience, but the two are inevitably at odds-so the young woman dons a man’s clothes and, like Huck Finn, chooses the “Indian Territory” that so frightens Mr. Valente Forget the dark, enchanted forest. She gets her name in mockery, as white is “the one thing I was not and could never be.” When her father remarries, Snow White’s glimpse into the second Mrs. Snow White is the daughter of a Crow woman abducted and forced into marriage by an unloving white magnate called only Mr. Valente’s adaptation of the fairy tale to the Old West provides a witty read with complex reverberations from the real world. ![]()
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