02963cam a2200337 4500 593243042 TxAuBib 20220728120000.0 ||||||s2019||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780062931221 0062931229 d8bd1141-baaf-4896-ab3a-b1f8fa386ad3 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 4335648 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Jones, Sadie. The Snakes [Bridges Audiobook] : A Novel. HarperAudio, 2019. Format: OverDrive OverDrive MP3 Audiobook, Filesize: 383MB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Listen, Filesize: 383MB. HTML:<p><strong>"The Snakes is many things—a parable and an ancient drama where a father's greed devours his children, a police procedural, an avid take on tabloid venality, and a bitter comedy, superbly observed, where behind a woman's eyes she is 'all movement inside herself, like a wasp in a glass.' I admit that I'm still shaken by parts of this novel. Sadie Jones writes with pitiless aplomb and corrosive intelligence."—Louise Erdrich</strong></p> <p>A chilling page-turner and impossible to put down, THE SNAKES is Sadie Jones at her best: breathtakingly powerful, brilliantly incisive, and utterly devastating.</p> <p>The new novel by Sadie Jones tells the tense and violent story of the Adamsons, a dysfunctional English family, with exceptional wealth, whose darkest secrets come back to bite them. Set mostly in rural France during contemporary times, THE SNAKES is an all-consuming read and a devastating portrait of how money corrupts, and how chance can deal a deadly hand.</p> <p>THE SNAKES exposes the damage wreaked by parents on children as observed by a new member of the family, Dan, a mixed-race man from Peckham who marries Bea, the daughter who refuses to take any of her father's filthy money. But when Bea's brother Alex (who runs a shabby hotel in Paligny, France) dies suddenly in unexplained circumstances, the confusion and suspicion which arise bring other dark family secrets—and violence—to the surface. And none of the family, even the good members, go untouched.</p>. Literature. Suspense. Thriller. Fiction. Media Type: Audiobook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2022-07-26 20:00:02. Church, Imogen. https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/0293-1/4335648-TheSnakes.mp3 Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=d8bd1141-baaf-4896-ab3a-b1f8fa386ad3&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/0293-1/4335648-TheSnakes.mp3 Excerpt (OverDrive Listen) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=d8bd1141-baaf-4896-ab3a-b1f8fa386ad3&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Listen)