Snow Angels
| Year of Publication |
1994
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| Publication Type |
Novel
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| Number of Pages or Episodes |
305 p.
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| Language |
English
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| Contributors |
Author:
Stewart O'Nan |
| Publisher |
Doubleday
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| City |
New York
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| Abstract |
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.
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| Notes |
Snow Angels won the Pirate's Alley William Faulkner Prize for the Novel.
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| Author Biography |
Stewart O'Nan (1961— ), born and raised in Pittsburgh, won the 1993 Drue Heinz Literature Prize for In the Walled City, a collection of short stories. The senior judge was Tobias Wolff.
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| Time |
1974-90s
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