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Snake
by Kate Jennings.
Fourth Estate, London, 2001.
Reprint, paperback.
Cover illustration by Kee Levey.
“A string of what are essentially prose poems draw the reader into intoxicating confinement with two Australian newlyweds, Rex and Irene, just after the second world war… Jennings conveys both the vast landscape of New South Wales and a sense of excruciating suffocation that threatens to drive the family apart. The snakes of the title occasionally weave through the text with understated symbolism, subtle emblems of the brooding sexual frustration that ripples beneath Jennings’s spare prose.”
Condition: Light crease to top right hand and bottom cover corner and along spine, otherwise in very good condition.
