Mirror Mirror

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: As New
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: HarperCollins
Publisher Place: New York
Publisher Year: 2003
Edition: First Edition

Description: 280 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in As new condition throughout.

Publishers Description: New from acclaimed bestselling author Gregory Maguire - a retelling of the Snow White story set in Renaissance Italy. A lyrical work of stunning creative vision, Mirror Mirror is set in Renaissance Italy, where Gregory Maguire makes a connection between the poison apple in the original Snow White story and the Borgia familys well-known appetite for poisoning its foes. Here the character of Snow White is called Bianca de Nevada. She is born on a farm in Tuscany in 1495, and at the age of seven, her father is ordered by Cesare Borgia to go on a quest to reclaim the relic of the original Tree of Knowledge, a branch with three living apples on it that are thousands of years old. Bianca is left in the care of her fathers farm staff, but Lucrezia Borgia, her patroness, becomes jealous of her lecherous brothers interest in the growing child. Lucrezia sends Bianca into the woods to have her heart cut from her chest by a hunter, but the hunter lets her go, and she (as in the fairy tale) finds herself in the home of seven dwarves - the creators of the magic mirror - who are imagined here as never before. In the masterly tradition of his earlier novels, Gregory Maguires evocative fourth novel brings fresh eyes to a beloved classic tale. Gregory Maguires first three novels, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister and Lost, have all appeared on bestseller lists nationwide and have earned him high praise and a solid literary readership. Wicked is the basis of the new Broadway musical of the same name.

ISBN: 9780060594534