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- Condition
- Book Title
- Snakepit : a Novel
- Publication Name
- Snakepit
- Title
- Snakepit
- Subtitle
- A Novel
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- ISBN-10
- 0375719210
- EAN
- 9780375719219
- ISBN
- 9780375719219
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Genre
- Fiction
- Release Year
- 2005
- Release Date
- 12/04/2005
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 0.6 in
- Item Length
- 8 in
- Item Width
- 5.2 in
- Item Weight
- 7.8 Oz
- Series
- Vintage International
- Book Series
- Vintage International Ser.
- Publication Year
- 2005
- Topic
- General, Literary
- Number of Pages
- 272 Pages
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Praised on both sides of the Atlantic as well as in the author's native Uganda, Moses Isegawa's first novel Abyssinian Chronicles was a "big, transcendently ambitious book" ( Boston Globe ) that "blasts open the tidy borders of the conventional novel and redraws the literary map to reveal a whole new world" ( Elle ). In Snakepit , Isegawa returns to the surreal, brutalizing landscapes of his homeland during the time of dictator Idi Amin, when interlocking webs of emotional cruelty kept tyrants gratified and servants cooperative, a land where no onenot husbands or wives, parents or loversis ever safe from the implacable desires of men in power. Men like General Bazooka, who rues the day he hired Cambridge-educated Bat Katanga as his "Bureaucrat Two"a man too good at his joband places in his midst (and his bed) a seductive operative named Victoria, whose mission and motives are anything but simple. Ambitious and acquisitive, more than a little arrogant, Katanga finds himself steadily boxed in by events spiraling madly out of control, where deception, extortion, and murder are just so many cards to be played.
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Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0375719210
ISBN-13
9780375719219
eBay Product ID (ePID)
43115117
Product Key Features
Book Title
Snakepit : a Novel
Number of Pages
272 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2005
Topic
General, Literary
Genre
Fiction
Book Series
Vintage International Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.6 in
Item Weight
7.8 Oz
Item Length
8 in
Item Width
5.2 in
Additional Product Features
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0
Reviews
"To readSnakepit. . .is to understand the seduction of power in its most naked form." -The Boston Globe "A devastating portrait of a country on the brink of implosion. . . . C]mplicated and intense. . . . Full of visceral, graphic language and acts of premeditated violence,Snakepitoffers a dark, queasy-making vision of a country hijacked by greed and megalomania, though Isegawa allows for a glimmer of hope." --San Francisco Chronicle "This diverting, absorbing read . . . makes us wonder where Isegawa's creative genius will take him next."-St. Louis Post-Dispatch "Isegawa's painful honesty and his unwillingness to spare any of his characters makeSnakepita work of fiction that bears the hallmark of truth." -Newark Star-Ledger "This diverting, absorbing read . . . makes us wonder where Isegawa's creative genius will take him next."-St. Louis Post-Dispatch "Isegawa's painful honesty and his unwillingness to spare any of his characters makeSnakepita work of fiction that bears the hallmark of truth." -Newark Star-Ledger "Reads like a macabre horror talethe special agent comes home to find his wife with her head cut offbut the fiction is grounded in the facts of Idi Amin's dictatorship in Uganda in the 1970s, when atrocity was 'business as usual'…Unforgettable." -Booklist "Isegawa has the raw talent to become one of Africa's leading literary voices in the years to come." -Chicago Tribune "Isegawa…one of Africa's premier writers, has crafted a savage portrait of a society gone mad, where maintaining one' s power and the favor of the dictator at all costs are the only ends." -Library Journal "Sharp, harrowing, indelible." -The Seattle Times "Isegawa assembles a devastating portrait of a paranoid society riddled with rivalries and enmities and fuelled by quests for one-upmanship and revenge… High-octane melodrama bearing a potent political and moral message. Isegawa delivers the goods." -Kirkus Reviews From the Trade Paperback edition., "To read Snakepit . . . is to understand the seduction of power in its most naked form." - The Boston Globe "A devastating portrait of a country on the brink of implosion. . . . C]mplicated and intense. . . . Full of visceral, graphic language and acts of premeditated violence, Snakepit offers a dark, queasy-making vision of a country hijacked by greed and megalomania, though Isegawa allows for a glimmer of hope." -- San Francisco Chronicle "This diverting, absorbing read . . . makes us wonder where Isegawa's creative genius will take him next." -St. Louis Post-Dispatch "Isegawa's painful honesty and his unwillingness to spare any of his characters make Snakepit a work of fiction that bears the hallmark of truth." - Newark Star-Ledger "This diverting, absorbing read . . . makes us wonder where Isegawa's creative genius will take him next." -St. Louis Post-Dispatch "Isegawa's painful honesty and his unwillingness to spare any of his characters make Snakepit a work of fiction that bears the hallmark of truth." - Newark Star-Ledger "Reads like a macabre horror talethe special agent comes home to find his wife with her head cut offbut the fiction is grounded in the facts of Idi Amin's dictatorship in Uganda in the 1970s, when atrocity was 'business as usual'…Unforgettable." - Booklist "Isegawa has the raw talent to become one of Africa's leading literary voices in the years to come." - Chicago Tribune "Isegawa…one of Africa's premier writers, has crafted a savage portrait of a society gone mad, where maintaining one' s power and the favor of the dictator at all costs are the only ends." - Library Journal "Sharp, harrowing, indelible." - The Seattle Times "Isegawa assembles a devastating portrait of a paranoid society riddled with rivalries and enmities and fuelled by quests for one-upmanship and revenge… High-octane melodrama bearing a potent political and moral message. Isegawa delivers the goods." - Kirkus Reviews, "To read Snakepit . . . is to understand the seduction of power in its most naked form." -- The Boston Globe "A devastating portrait of a country on the brink of implosion. . . . C]mplicated and intense. . . . Full of visceral, graphic language and acts of premeditated violence, Snakepit offers a dark, queasy-making vision of a country hijacked by greed and megalomania, though Isegawa allows for a glimmer of hope." -- San Francisco Chronicle "This diverting, absorbing read . . . makes us wonder where Isegawa's creative genius will take him next." -St. Louis Post-Dispatch "Isegawa's painful honesty and his unwillingness to spare any of his characters make Snakepit a work of fiction that bears the hallmark of truth." -- Newark Star-Ledger "This diverting, absorbing read . . . makes us wonder where Isegawa's creative genius will take him next." -St. Louis Post-Dispatch "Isegawa's painful honesty and his unwillingness to spare any of his characters make Snakepit a work of fiction that bears the hallmark of truth." -- Newark Star-Ledger "Reads like a macabre horror tale-the special agent comes home to find his wife with her head cut off-but the fiction is grounded in the facts of Idi Amin's dictatorship in Uganda in the 1970s, when atrocity was 'business as usual'...Unforgettable." -- Booklist "Isegawa has the raw talent to become one of Africa's leading literary voices in the years to come." -- Chicago Tribune "Isegawa...one of Africa's premier writers, has crafted a savage portrait of a society gone mad, where maintaining one' s power and the favor of the dictator at all costs are the only ends." - Library Journal "Sharp, harrowing, indelible." -- The Seattle Times "Isegawa assembles a devastating portrait of a paranoid society riddled with rivalries and enmities and fuelled by quests for one-upmanship and revenge... High-octane melodrama bearing a potent political and moral message. Isegawa delivers the goods." - Kirkus Reviews, "To readSnakepit. . .is to understand the seduction of power in its most naked form." -The Boston Globe "A devastating portrait of a country on the brink of implosion. . . . C]mplicated and intense. . . . Full of visceral, graphic language and acts of premeditated violence,Snakepitoffers a dark, queasy-making vision of a country hijacked by greed and megalomania, though Isegawa allows for a glimmer of hope." --San Francisco Chronicle "This diverting, absorbing read . . . makes us wonder where Isegawa's creative genius will take him next."-St. Louis Post-Dispatch "Isegawa's painful honesty and his unwillingness to spare any of his characters makeSnakepita work of fiction that bears the hallmark of truth." -Newark Star-Ledger "This diverting, absorbing read . . . makes us wonder where Isegawa's creative genius will take him next."-St. Louis Post-Dispatch "Isegawa's painful honesty and his unwillingness to spare any of his characters makeSnakepita work of fiction that bears the hallmark of truth." -Newark Star-Ledger "Reads like a macabre horror talethe special agent comes home to find his wife with her head cut offbut the fiction is grounded in the facts of Idi Amin's dictatorship in Uganda in the 1970s, when atrocity was 'business as usual'…Unforgettable." -Booklist "Isegawa has the raw talent to become one of Africa's leading literary voices in the years to come." -Chicago Tribune "Isegawa…one of Africa's premier writers, has crafted a savage portrait of a society gone mad, where maintaining one' s power and the favor of the dictator at all costs are the only ends." -Library Journal "Sharp, harrowing, indelible." -The Seattle Times "Isegawa assembles a devastating portrait of a paranoid society riddled with rivalries and enmities and fuelled by quests for one-upmanship and revenge… High-octane melodrama bearing a potent political and moral message. Isegawa delivers the goods." -Kirkus Reviews
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