"Probably the most perversely gifted writer in the Uates, Donald Barthelme has created a new form of fi. Snow White has everything, including William Burroughs cutups, words posing as paintings, ribald social entary, crazy esthetic experiments, and edy that smashes." -- WEBSTER SCHOTT, Life
Snow White is Donald Barthelmes raunchy and hilarious rew of the classic fairy tale. Eschewing the formalism of earlier genres of fi, Barthelme experiments with style and voice, taking the well-known characters of childhood aing them as sexually active and psychologically plex paradigms of postmodernist satire. His writing possesses a fantastic humor marked by a straightforresentation of the absurdly grotesque, indig the irrational nature of our everyday world.
"We hear the singing dwarfs of our childhood, and the voice of a splendid writer who knows how to turn spiritual dilemmas into logid how to turn that logito edy which is the true wised-up story of our time." -- Jack Kroll, Newsweek
This book is a work of fi. Names, characters, places, and is
either are products of the authors imagination or are used fictitiously.
Any resemblao actual events or locales or persons, living or dead,
is entirely tal.
Cht ? 1965, 1967 by Donald Earthelme; cht renewed
All rights reserved, including the right of reprodu
in whole or in part in any form.
This book first appeared, in slightly different form,in The New Yorker. Certain portions also appeared, in slightly different form, in Harpers Bazaar and Paris Review.
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