Snake - Couverture rigide

Jennings, Kate

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1841152846 ISBN 13 : 9781841152844

Editeur : Fourth Estate Ltd, 2000

Synopsis

‘“Snake” is a book that will come to be regarded as a classic account of the realities of Australian rural life.’ People Magazine

Irene is clever, ambitious, easily seduced, and tempted by everything-everything beyond the confines of her life on a remote Australian farm and her marriage to a man she might once, briefly, have loved. Rex, her quiet, adoring, responsible husband, bears mostly silent witness as Irene wrestles with her duties as wife and mother, tends her garden, and imaginatively resists her fate, as their marriage unravels inexorably, bitterly, spectacularly.

‘The brief scenes, often seemingly random and catching the absolute rub of the quotidian, possess what feels like a holographic shimmer…”Snake” is clearly the work of a powerful imagination.’ Carol Shields, New York Times Book Review

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Kate Jennings, who grew up in Australia, has lived in New York since 1979. Her writings have appeared in the New York Times Book Review and she is the author of an award-winning collection of short stories, ‘Women Falling Down in the Street’. She is the author of ‘Snake’ and ‘Moral Hazard’.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

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 and 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."

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Fourth Estate Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2000
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1841152846
• ISBN 13: 9781841152844
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 160
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible