TY - SER
KW - teenagers
KW - divorce
KW - musicians
KW - marching bands
KW - gun violence
KW - murder
AU - Stewart O'Nan
AB - The story opens at high school band practice on a Friday in mid-December 1974, where Arthur Parkinson, 14, and the other kids hear gunshots. Annie Marchand, who had once been Arthur’s babysitter, was murdered. Arthur's own family life disintegrated after a parental divorce.
C1 - 1974-90s
C3 - Allegheny County; Pittsburgh; Butler County; Butler; Butler Twp.; Butler High School; Saxonburg; Prospect; Butler County Fairgrounds; Penn Twp.; Armstrong County; Ford City
C4 - Literary; Coming-of-Age; Bildungsroman
CY - New York
LA - English
M3 - Novel
N1 - <em>Snow Angels</em> won the Pirate's Alley William Faulkner Prize for the Novel.
N2 - The story opens at high school band practice on a Friday in mid-December 1974, where Arthur Parkinson, 14, and the other kids hear gunshots. Annie Marchand, who had once been Arthur’s babysitter, was murdered. Arthur's own family life disintegrated after a parental divorce.
PB - Doubleday
PP - New York
PY - 1994
RN - Stewart O'Nan (1961— ), born and raised in Pittsburgh, won the 1993 Drue Heinz Literature Prize for <em>In the Walled City</em>, a collection of short stories. The senior judge was Tobias Wolff.
EP - 305 p.
TI - Snow Angels
ER -