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"Probably the most perversely gifted writer in the United States, Donald Barthelme has created a new form of fiction. Snow White has everything, including William Burroughs cutups, words posing as paintings, ribald social commentary, crazy esthetic experiments, and comedy that smashes." -- WEBSTER SCHOTT, Life

Snow White is Donald Barthelmes raunchy and hilarious reworking of the classic fairy tale. Eschewing the formalism of earlier genres of fiction, Barthelme experiments with style and voice, taking the well-known characters of childhood and recasting them as sexually active and psychologically complex paradigms of postmodernist satire. His writing possesses a fantastic humor marked by a straightforward presentation of the absurdly grotesque, indicating 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 logic, and how to turn that logic into comedy which is the true wised-up story of our time." -- Jack Kroll, Newsweek

This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents

either are products of the authors imagination or are used fictitiously.

Any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead,

is entirely coincidental.

Copyright ? 1965, 1967 by Donald Earthelme; copyright renewed

All rights reserved, including the right of reproduction

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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