Mirror mirror [electronic resource]. Gregory Maguire.
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- ISBN: 9780061762833 (sound recording)
- Physical Description: 1 online resource (8 audio files) : digital
- Edition: Unabridged.
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Participant or Performer Note: | Narrator: John McDonough. |
Summary, etc.: | "A brilliant achievement." —Boston Herald "Entertaining...profound....A novel for adults that unearths our buried fascination with the primal fears and truths fairy tales contain." —Christian Science Monitor Gregory Maguire, the acclaimed author who re-imagined a darker, more dangerous Land of Oz in his New York Times bestselling series The Wicked Years, offers a brilliant reinvention of the timeless Snow White fairy tale: Mirror Mirror. Setting his story amid the cultural, political and artistic whirlwind of Renaissance Italy—and casting the notorious Lucrezia Borgia as the Evil Queen—Maguire and Mirror Mirror will enthrall a wide array of book lovers ranging from adult fans of Harry Potter to readers of the sophisticated stories of Angela Carter. |
Target Audience Note: | Text Difficulty 5 - Text Difficulty 6 UG/Upper grades (9th-12) 950 Lexile. 7.2 ATOS Level |
Reproduction Note: | Electronic reproduction. New York: HarperAudio, 2008. Requires the Libby app or a modern web browser. |
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Subject: | Fiction. Literature. |
Genre: | Electronic books. |
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Mirror Mirror
"A brilliant achievement." --Boston Herald "Entertaining...profound....A novel for adults that unearths our buried fascination with the primal fears and truths fairy tales contain." --Christian Science Monitor Gregory Maguire, the acclaimed author who re-imagined a darker, more dangerous Land of Oz in his New York Times bestselling series The Wicked Years, offers a brilliant reinvention of the timeless Snow White fairy tale: Mirror Mirror. Setting his story amid the cultural, political and artistic whirlwind of Renaissance Italy--and casting the notorious Lucrezia Borgia as the Evil Queen--Maguire and Mirror Mirror will enthrall a wide array of book lovers ranging from adult fans of Harry Potter to readers of the sophisticated stories of Angela Carter.