An edition of Snake (1996)

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An edition of Snake (1996)

Snake

1st ed.

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Set against the hard landscape of postwar Australia and moving through the 1950s and 1960s, Snake starts with a premise as frightening and common-place as the deadly bush snake that lurks in the Australian interior: The loyal Rex, a good man, cherishes his wife Irene. Irene, bubbling over with feminine anger and unspecified desire, despises Rex. Into this marriage, this terrible emptiness, two people pour their very lives.

Snake is about the loneliness of men married to unkind women, about the unloved becoming unlovable. Irene - an Australian Madame Bovary - moves through these pages like a force of nature. Chapter by brief chapter, Snake tells her story with archetypal force and subtlety - and a mesmerizing, zero-at-the-bone simplicity that literally propels the reader to the novel's stark climax.

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Ecco Press
Language
English
Pages
157

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Subjects

Marriage, Fiction, Fiction, general, Australia, fiction, Man-woman relationships

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Cover of: Un silence brûlant
Un silence brûlant
2006-04-01, Gallimard
in French
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Snake
February 5, 2001, Fourth Estate
Paperback - New Ed edition
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Bist du glücklich?
August 1, 2000, Nagel & Kimche
Hardcover in German
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Snake
2000, HarperCollins Publishers Limited
in English
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Snake
January 19, 1999, Back Bay Books
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Snake
1999, Little Brown & Company
in English
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Snake
1997, Ecco Press
in English - 1st ed.
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Snake
1996, Minerva
in English
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Snake
1996, Minerva
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Published in
Hopewell, N.J

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Dewey Decimal Class
823
Library of Congress
PR9619.3.J44 S65 1997, PR9619.3.J44S65 1997

The Physical Object

Pagination
157 p. ;
Number of pages
157

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Open Library
OL1002384M
Internet Archive
snake00jenn
ISBN 10
0880015381
LCCN
96041698
OCLC/WorldCat
35360780
Library Thing
204278
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4709389

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