'Stunning - the work of a powerful imagination' Carol Shields. Snake is Kate Jennings first novel, she has written poetry and an award-winning collection of short stories. My life is about to begin. This is the only thought in Irene's head the day she marries a handsome second-world war veteran. But irritation, frustration and disappointment follow as the couple start their life together on a remote Australian farm. Rex, hard-working, reliable, agonised by love not returned and 'imprisoned in loneliness', bears ...
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'Stunning - the work of a powerful imagination' Carol Shields. Snake is Kate Jennings first novel, she has written poetry and an award-winning collection of short stories. My life is about to begin. This is the only thought in Irene's head the day she marries a handsome second-world war veteran. But irritation, frustration and disappointment follow as the couple start their life together on a remote Australian farm. Rex, hard-working, reliable, agonised by love not returned and 'imprisoned in loneliness', bears mostly silent inarticulate witness to Irene's flailing attempts to escape their claustrophobic existence. So do Girlie and Boy, their children, who to Rex seem like 'the blurred faces on...a passing train. Faces that never gained definition no matter how hard they stared.' Stark yet strangely comic snapshots document the inexorable disintegration of the family. Kate Jennings' black humour and muscular prose, both pared down and rich in startling imagery, distils time and place in a work of literature that carves its exquisitely painful mark deep into the mind.
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Good. Good condition. From the collection of Robyn (Mrs. Charles) Krauthammer. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.
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Fine in Near Fine jacket. First edition. Fine in near fine dust jacket. Clean text in clean cloth covers, with gold stamped spine, dust jacket shows minor general wear (ie some scratches and rubs on covers).
