Snake

Kate Jennings

earliest edition we have, 1996 Back Bay Books, 1999 paperback 176 pages

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...

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Editions we hold

Un silence brûlant edition · 2006 · Gallimard · 9782070307906
Snake paperback · 2001 · Fourth Estate · 160 pages · 9781841152851
Snake edition · 2000 · HarperCollins Publishers Limited · 9781841152844
Bist du glücklich? hardcover · 2000 · Nagel & Kimche · 9783312002719
Snake paperback · 1999 · Back Bay Books · 176 pages · 9780316912587
Snake edition · 1999 · Little Brown & Company · 9780316190985
Snake edition · 1997 · Ecco Press · 157 pages
Snake edition · 1996 · Minerva · 144 pages

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