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The snow child : a novel / Eowyn Ivey.

Ivey, Eowyn. (Author).

Summary:

Alaska, 1920: a brutal place to homestead, and especially tough for recent arrivals Jack and Mabel. They both deeply long for a child that's now impossible for them to have. In a moment of levity during the season's first snowfall, they build a child out of snow. The next morning the snow child is gone--but they glimpse a young, blond-haired girl running through the trees. This little girl, who calls herself Faina, seems to be a child of the woods. She hunts with a red fox at her side, skims lightly across the snow, and somehow survives alone in the Alaskan wilderness. As Jack and Mabel struggle to understand this child who could have stepped from the pages of a fairy tale, they come to love her as their own daughter. But in this beautiful, violent place things are rarely as they appear, and what they eventually learn about Faina will transform all of them.

Record details

  • ISBN: 0316175676 (hardcover)
  • ISBN: 9780316175678 (hardcover)
  • Physical Description: 389 pages ; 22 cm.
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Little, Brown and Co., 2012.

Content descriptions

General Note:
"A Reagan Arthur book."
Subject: Frontier and pioneer life > Alaska > Fiction.
Fairy tales > Adaptations.
Alaska > History > 1867-1959 > Fiction.
Genre: Magic realist fiction.

Available copies

  • 14 of 16 copies available at Sage Library System.

Holds

  • 2 current holds with 16 total copies.
Show Only Available Copies
Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Circulation Modifier Status Due Date Courses
Athena Public Library FIC IVE (Text) 37813000025562 Adult Fiction Available -
Baker County Library IVEY (Eowyn) (Text) 37814002572924 FICTION on display -
Cook Memorial Library - La Grande F Ivey, E (Text) 35178001288250 Adult Fiction Checked out 03/25/2025
Harney County Library FIC IVEY (Text) 37720000454231 Adult Fiction Available -
Helix Public Library F IVE (Text) 37835000092540 Adult Fiction Available -
Hood River County Library FIC IVEY (Text) 33892005583647 Adult Fiction In transit -
Klamath Community College PS3609.V54S66 2012 (Text) 3760300112 Main Collection Available -
Milton-Freewater Public Library FIC Ivey (Text) 37862000267757 Adult Fiction Available -
Nyssa Public Library F IVE pb (Text) 36660000443951 Adult Fiction Available -
Ontario Community Library IVEY, Eowyn (Text) 33330004107274 Adult Fiction Available -


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