Season of the Snake - Hardcover

Davis, Claire

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0312332823 ISBN 13: 9780312332822

Publisher: St Martin's Press, 2005

Synopsis

Years after the tragic death of her first husband, Nance Able remarries and begins a new life in the West with Ned, a school principal whose quiet charm lulls her to contentment. A scientist tracking rattlesnakes in the wilderness of Hell's Canyon, Idaho, Nance courts natural dangers-believing that conquering such risk will protect her from further grief. But at home, she is unaware that her husband's secret proclivities are emerging. When Nance's younger, errant sister Meredith moves to town, Ned can no longer suppress the terrifying mysteries of his past, and the sisters must find the strength together to survive his love.

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Review

Advance Praise for "Season of the Snake""A suspenseful and heartbreaking meditation on the nature of fate, family, sex, death, and our individual misuses of love. Truly a thrilling novel."---Mark Spragg, author of "An Unfinished Life", "The Fruit of Stone", and "Where Rivers Change Direction""Claire Davis's new novel is a psychological thriller written with an almost Proustian sense of detail. It would not surprise me if Season of the Snake turns out to be this year's Mystic River, that rare book that manages to be both a huge literary and popular success."---"Steve Yarbrough", author of "Prisoners of War" and "The Oxygen Man""In Claire Davis's chilling new novel, predators wear the colors of their surroundings and only the undeceived survive. A tough, smart story given in uncommonly vibrant and muscular language. Season of the Snake reconfirms her place in the first rank of voices from the American West."-David Long, author of "The Falling Boy""Like a coiled diamondback, Claire Davis's "Season of the Snake" grabs your attention and doesn't let go. The only time I put it down was to get up and lock the doors."---Judy Blunt, author of "Breaking Clean"

About the Author

Claire Davis is the author of "Winter Range," winner of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award for Best First Novel and the Mountains and Plains Booksellers Award for Best Novel in 2000. Her short fiction has been chosen for the Best American Short Stories annual collection, read as part of the Symphony Space series on National Public Radio, and published in numerous magazines. She lives in Lewiston, Idaho, where she teaches creative writing at Lewis-Clark College.

About this edition

• Publisher: St Martin's Press
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0312332823
• ISBN 13: 9780312332822
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 288