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'Kate says she doesn’t know what to say about writing. When people ask, she tells them to prepare for a life of failure.
'Award-winning writer Erik Jensen plunges the reader into the world of acclaimed novelist, poet and pioneering feminist Kate Jennings. Weaving in his interviews with Jennings in New York, he shows how poetry, politics and family were transmuted into her first novel, Snake – a work of art that depicts rural Australia in a funny, cutting and unforgettable way. This is a biography of a book and the life that made it.' (Publication summary)
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Dedication: For Nell
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Epigraph: 'Life is short...the occasion fleeting; experience deceitful, and judgment difficult.' - Hippocrates
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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Writers Writing about Writers and Writing
2017
single work
review
— Appears in: Inside Story , December 2017;
— Review of The Drover's Wife : A Celebration of a Great Australian Love Affair 2017 anthology short story criticism ; A Wife’s Heart : The Untold Story of Bertha and Henry Lawson 2017 single work biography ; The Drover's Wife 2016 single work drama ; Alice Pung on John Marsden 2017 single work essay ; Erik Jensen on Kate Jennings 2017 single work essay
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Writers Writing about Writers and Writing
2017
single work
review
— Appears in: Inside Story , December 2017;
— Review of The Drover's Wife : A Celebration of a Great Australian Love Affair 2017 anthology short story criticism ; A Wife’s Heart : The Untold Story of Bertha and Henry Lawson 2017 single work biography ; The Drover's Wife 2016 single work drama ; Alice Pung on John Marsden 2017 single work essay ; Erik Jensen on Kate Jennings 2017 single work essay
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