商品簡介
Sanketown tells of a ploace that captivates and holds hostage, a place hermitle and congoniral like the families that populare it. It tells the story of heredity and tragedy, how evil can magnerize as mightly as beauty, How a family. nostalgie for past times---devastating times---can revise darnaging, damning memory how the faindiar should never be trusted.
"Karhleen Wakefield's imagination constrncted a minefield of malady when she wrore snaketown-Snaketown's soil has been caped by the mining industry and infected by a contagious soul sickness, which has spread to irs inbred and brillianl Iyrical detail, biblieally enchanring."---Martine bellen, author of 2X2 and the Vulnerability of Order
"There is music here, in Snaketown, a jyrical cadence---old ghosts playing guitars in a stirring and beautiful but killing terrain, This is a ballad of a lost child told with heartbreaking and unflinching clarity."---Darrell Brown, producer and songwriter
"Snaketown is a shocking achievement. It's a vision earved in jagged, searing native prose from the bleak. Landscape of the American psyche. This story of a crumbling community elinging to a rock, its people flawed and hunnted and kin to us all, is in experience so vivid, so territying, and so compelling that I fear part ofr me will be stuck there foreyer. A work of rare beauty, it's art and storytelling of the highest order."---Steve Lattimore, author of Circumnavigation
"In venomous lyriclsm, Kathleen Wakefield captures the sweltering emptiness at the rim of the high deseri in another, woehegone time, where the rustling behind you may be angels' wings or diamondback scales. This seathing novelloa will remain with you long after you have put it away A searing triumph you must read this book!"---Rita Williams, author of If The Creek Don't Rise
