{"product_id":"the-snakes-a-novel","title":"The Snakes A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"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. Sadie Jones writes with pitiless aplomb and corrosive intelligence.\"--Louise Erdrich\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA chilling page-turner and impossible to put down, THE SNAKES is Sadie Jones at her best: breathtakingly powerful, brilliantly incisive, and utterly devastating.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e This gripping 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTHE 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Blue Vase Bulk","offers":[{"title":"Used \/ 9780062897039-001","offer_id":43828237008957,"sku":"9780062897039-001","price":4.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0589\/4225\/9261\/files\/10174493482210.jpg?v=1792088093","url":"https:\/\/www.bluevasebooks.com\/products\/the-snakes-a-novel","provider":"Blue Vase Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}