Snow Angels
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This article is about the novel. For the film, see Snow Angels (film). For other uses, see Snow Angel (disambiguation).
Snow Angels is a 1994 novel by American author Stewart O'Nan. When the book was still in manuscript, it earned the first Pirate's Alley Faulkner Prize for the Novel, awarded by the Pirate's Alley Faulkner Society of New Orleans.[1]
Set in Butler, Pennsylvania, in 1974, Snow Angels is the story of teenager Arthur Parkinson, the disintegration of his parents' marriage, and the murder of Arthur's one-time babysitter, Annie Marchand.
In 2007 Snow Angels was adapted for a film of the same title, directed by David Gordon Green, who also wrote the screenplay, and starring Sam Rockwell and Kate Beckinsale.
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- ^ About the Competition: History of Success. The Pirate's Alley Faulkner Society, Inc. (2006). Retrieved on 2007-03-29.
