Snow Angels

"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. [cite web|url=http://www.thefaulknersociety.org/guidelines.html|date=2006|accessdate=2007-03-29|title=About the Competition: History of Success|work=The Pirate's Alley Faulkner Society, Inc.]

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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