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Cargando... Snake (1996)por Kate Jennings
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. This is an example of how much can be said in so few words. It is black and compelling and humorous. It resonated. I grew up during this period in this countryside. The landscape, the life, it's all there. The characters are well drawn and understood though not always likeable, certainly Irene is not. One can only wonder at the life Boy and his sister made for themselves after such a beginning. I don't know what else I can say. It's a five star read. ( ) This is a stark book that evokes the harshness of the Australian bush and the people who try to make a living from the land. The story focuses on Rex and Irene who marry in haste in the aftermath of the 2nd World War. Jenning's writing style is spare with short vignettes rather than chapters that are seemingly unrelated until you finish the book and are left with an overwhelming sense of despair, bitterness, disappointment and tragedy sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
Everywhere praised for its mesmerizing intensity and taut, quick-witted prose, Snake tells the story of a mismatched couple -- Irene, ambitious and man-crazy, and her quiet, adoring, responsible husband, Rex -- who tumble into marriage and settle as newlyweds on a remote Australian farm. It is amid this unforgiving landscape that Irene and Rex raise their two children. It is here that, as Rex bears silent witness, Irene tends her garden and wrestles with what seems to be her fate. And it is here that their marriage unravels -- inexorably, bitterly, spectacularly. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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