num_pages: 216
description: Award-winning graphic novelist Matt Phelan delivers a darkly stylized noir Snow White set against the backdrop of Depression-era Manhattan.The scene: New York City 1928. The dazzling lights cast shadows that grow ever darker as the glitzy prosperity of the Roaring Twenties screeches to a halt. Enter a cast of familiar characters: a young girl Samantha White returning after being sent away by her cruel stepmother the Queen of the Follies years earlier; her father the King of Wall Street who survives the stock market crash only to suffer a strange and sudden death; seven street urchins brave protectors for a girl as pure as snow; and a mysterious stock ticker that holds the stepmother in its thrall churning out ticker tape imprinted with the wicked words Another . . . More Beautiful . . . KILL. In a moody cinematic new telling of a beloved fairy tale extraordinary graphic novelist Matt Phelan captures the essence of classic film noir on the pageand draws a striking distinction between good and evil.
language: English
title: Snow White
publisher: Candlewick Press