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An early story, later retitled me and miss mandible 1961 makes use of comic disparity an adult misassigned to an elementary school classroom in a way that anticipates snow white modern characters attempting to live out fairy tale roles. Barthelme s allusive postmodern style also plays an important part in a shower of gold 1964 and the indian uprising 1965. The snow white community note includes chapterbychapter summary and analysis, character but in barthelmes fairy tale, snow white is in modern times. Barthelmes first novel, it contains fundamental elements of philosophy.
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