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'My life is about to begin. This is the only thought in Irene’s head on the day she marries a handsome Second World War veteran and becomes a farmer’s wife. But Irene quickly grows restless. Bored to her back teeth, she is scornful of her dutiful husband, heedless of her children. She wants adventure, to experience whatever is on offer: men, travel, culture. As Irene and Rex raise children and crops, the tension between them builds and builds …
'Kate Jennings’s black humour and pared-back prose, at once understated and rich in startling imagery, resonate long after the final unnerving chapter. Set in an irrigation area – barren soil blessed by water – Snake is a modern classic.' (Publication summary)
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Epigraph: When the dog at morning/Whines upon the frost/I shall be in another place./Lost, lost, lost - Elizabeth Riddell.
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Other Formats
- Sound recording.
- Large print.
Works about this Work
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Erik Jensen on Kate Jennings
Carlton
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Black Inc.
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2017
11466092
2017
single work
essay
'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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[Review] Snake
2011
single work
review
— Appears in: Bookseller + Publisher Magazine , July vol. 91 no. 1 2011; (p. 18)
— Review of Snake 1996 single work novel -
Pick of the Week
2011
single work
review
— Appears in: The Saturday Age , 19 March 2011; (p. 28)
— Review of Snake 1996 single work novel -
Fiction
2003
single work
review
— Appears in: The Age , 8 March 2003; (p. 4)
— Review of Snake 1996 single work novel -
Two of Us : Dare Jennings & Kate Jennings
2002
single work
column
— Appears in: Good Weekend , 8 June 2002; (p. 14)
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Fiction
2003
single work
review
— Appears in: The Age , 8 March 2003; (p. 4)
— Review of Snake 1996 single work novel -
[Review] Snake
1997
single work
review
— Appears in: New York Times Book Review , 11 May 1997; (p. 11)
— Review of Snake 1996 single work novel -
Pick of the Week
2011
single work
review
— Appears in: The Saturday Age , 19 March 2011; (p. 28)
— Review of Snake 1996 single work novel -
[Review] Snake
2011
single work
review
— Appears in: Bookseller + Publisher Magazine , July vol. 91 no. 1 2011; (p. 18)
— Review of Snake 1996 single work novel -
Finally, It's Firebug Finch
1996
single work
review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 6 July 1996; (p. 10)
— Review of The Slap 1996 single work novel ; Snake 1996 single work novel -
Jennings in Exile
1997
single work
biography
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 3 May 1997; (p. wkd 8) -
Out of the Abyss
1996
single work
column
biography
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 29 June 1996; (p. 12s) -
Madame Bovary Set in 'Bush'
1996
single work
biography
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 7 July 1996; (p. 24) -
A Serpent's Tale
2000
single work
biography
criticism
— Appears in: The Age , 25 November 2000; (p. 4) -
Two of Us : Dare Jennings & Kate Jennings
2002
single work
column
— Appears in: Good Weekend , 8 June 2002; (p. 14)
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