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Mirror, mirror

A novel

By Gregory Maguire

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| Paperback | 9780060988654

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The year is 1502, and seven-year-old Bianca de Nevada lives perched high above the rolling hills and valleys of Tuscany and Umbria at Montefiore, the farm of her beloved father, Don Vicente. But one day a noble entourage makes its way up the winding slopes to the farm -- and the world comes to MoContinue

The year is 1502, and seven-year-old Bianca de Nevada lives perched high above the rolling hills and valleys of Tuscany and Umbria at Montefiore, the farm of her beloved father, Don Vicente. But one day a noble entourage makes its way up the winding slopes to the farm -- and the world comes to Montefiore.

In the presence of Cesare Borgia and his sister, the lovely and vain Lucrezia -- decadent children of a wicked pope -- no one can claim innocence for very long. When Borgia sends Don Vicente on a years-long quest, he leaves Bianca under the care -- so to speak -- of Lucrezia.

She plots a dire fate for the young girl in the woods below the farm, but in the dark forest salvation can be found as well ...

A lyrical work of stunning creative vision, Mirror Mirror gives fresh life to the classic story of Snow White -- and has a truth and beauty all its own.

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  • "Mirror, Mirror"

    (Reviewed by Jenny Dressel OCT 05, 2003) “Mirror, mirror on the wall, who’s the fairest of them all?”- Snow White, Brothers Grimm Gregory Maguire has done it again. He has taken a beloved, classic fairytale, and molded the story into a novel which ha ... (read full critics)

    mostlyfiction published on Wed, 29 Sep 2010

  • Mirror Mirror

    Every book is a re-invention of the world into words. But authors who write about what has already been written face a special challenge. It's easy enough to pull a character out of reality, or out of another piece of fiction, and plop that character ... (read full critics)

    bookotron published on Tue, 14 Sep 2010

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  • My sister turned me onto reading Gregory Maguire and I love him. He takes an old fairy tale and puts a new twist on it. He is brilliant!

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