SNAKE
Book ID/图书代码： 01899510B43628
English Summary/英文概要： 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.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 《蛇》这本书因为它紧张的情节，灵活的散文文体备受人们称赞，这本书讲述了一对在一起并不搭配的夫妇——Irene是个雄心勃勃并且有些男性神经质的女人，而她那安静的令人敬佩的责任心强丈夫Rex和她新婚后，定居于澳大利亚一个偏远农场。就在这荒凉的地方Irene和Rex抚养了他们的两个孩子。在这里，就像Rex忍受冷眼观察一样，Irene也在和她即将的命运作斗争，而正是在这里，他们的婚姻正遭受着既痛苦又无情的引人注目的危机。（LNL）
Awards/获奖情况：“可读性非常强…这本小说酝酿着能量、激情，整本书贯穿着紧张的情节”—— Debra Adelide, 悉尼先驱晨报
《蛇》这本书以简短的场景，看似随机的事件抓住了日常的摩擦，却能给人以全息照相的感觉，这显然是一个需要庞大想象力的工作。美国读者能够认识这样一位作者Kate Jennings绝对是幸运的——Carol Shields，纽约时代书评
《蛇》这本书以短小的章节，生动想象力，奇闻异事，敏锐的洞察。很难相信一个完全的家庭悲剧能够用如此这样小的细节来完整表述出来，即使是诗人也很难在散文中运用地更好凝练字句了吧。
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虽然与我们美国人相似，但是澳大利亚人与我们也有不同，他们对于美国人的想象有种奇怪的偏见，虽然从骨子里相似，但还是有令人迷惑的奇怪《蛇》这本书是澳大利亚女权主义诗人，散文家Jennings的处女作，她在美国生活了接近二十年之久，这本书发生在澳大利亚农场，毫无疑问与二战后的堪萨斯州或者科罗拉多州有相似之处。Rex没有一点土地；他那像野马一样的弟弟虐待他，甚至差点弄死他，所以弟弟继承了家庭农场。Rex从战争中回来后，对他所见所闻一概不提，只想着结婚，组成一个家庭尽享天伦。他遇到了Irene，他是个被宠坏的富家女，她并不是一个好妈妈；她还没从战争的兴奋中走出来，而且想让这种快乐延续。当不能继续时，她的恶意就会波及周围的人；疑惑而又无力反抗的Rex；他们的孩子，Girlie和Boy；村庄里的邻居，讽刺性地称之为进步。这个简短的小说通过短短的章节勾勒出来自痛苦家庭的有血有肉的人物。Mary Carroll这篇评论实在无法加上一个标题。
"Immensely readable....A novel that simmers with energy, passion, and thoroughly unresolved tensions." -- Debra Adelide, Sydney Morning Hearald
"The brief scenes, often seemingly random and catching the absolute rub of the quotidian, possess what feels like a holographic shimmer...SNAKE is clearly the work of a powerful imagination. American readers will feel themselves fortunate to make the acquaintance of a writer like Kate Jennings." -- Carol Shields, New York Times Book Review
"The chapters in SNAKE are short, vivid bursts of imagery, anecdote, insight....It’s hard to believe a full-blown family tragedy can be told so wholly and well in such small, deft snatches, but then rarely has a poet’s skill at compaction been put to better uses in prose." -- Michelle Huneven, Los Angeles Times Book Review
From Booklist
So like us, yet so different, Australians hold an odd place in the American imagination, at once bone-familiar and disorientingly strange. Incidents that Snake (a debut novel by Australian feminist poet, essayist, and short story writer Jennings, who has lived in the U.S. for nearly 20 years) places in Australia’s sheep-farming country no doubt had parallels in Kansas or Colorado after World War II. Rex has no land: a horse his bullying younger brother abused nearly killed him, so the brother inherits the family farm. Rex returns from war silent about what he has seen, seeking only to marry, make a home, and raise children. He finds Irene, the spoiled daughter of wealthy, mismatched parents; she’s partied through the war and wants the excitement to continue. When it doesn’t, Irene’s venom poisons her world: puzzled, nonconfrontational Rex; their children, Girlie and Boy; and neighbors in the village, ironically called Progress. This brief novel’s very short chapters compose a pointillistic portrait of a painfully dysfunctional family. Mary Carroll --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
About the Author/作者介绍： Kate Jennings在澳大利亚长大，从1979年开始就在纽约居住。她的作品已经进入纽约时代书评、Self、和一些其他杂志。《蛇》是她第一本在美国出版的小说。Kate Jennings, who grew up in Australia, has lived since 1979 in New York City. Her writings have appeared in the New York Times Book Review, Self, and other magazines. SNAKE is her first novel and the first of her books to be published in the United States.
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