Share for friends:

Read Snakewoman Of Little Egypt (2010)

Snakewoman of Little Egypt (2010)

Online Book

Genre
Rating
3.32 of 5 Votes: 3
Your rating
ISBN
1608192628 (ISBN13: 9781608192625)
Language
English
Publisher
Bloomsbury USA

Snakewoman Of Little Egypt (2010) - Plot & Excerpts

Enjoyable, interesting, well-written, by an author at the top of his form. Like many Hellenga books, this one takes place in the American Midwest, but this is a strange Midwest, with snake-handling religious zealots, a small-town college professor who longs to go back to his anthropology research in Africa, a beautiful ex-convict who studies at the college and sleeps with the professor. Just the setup for the story makes me want to read it again. It's inventive, but also universal, a story of loss, love, and joie de vivre. I liked the book, but several of the premises were just too hard to swallow. Here's my list:1. A spunky but naive 35-year-old (female) ex-con. 2. The professors at the prestigious university she attends after being released from prison welcome her as a friend and colleague. An equal.3. Rampant infidelity. (But a man wrote it...what do you expect?)4. A well-respected anthropologist consciously chooses to stop observing and start participating in not just one, but two societies he is studying.

What do You think about Snakewoman Of Little Egypt (2010)?

An interesting look at a strange piece of Southern culture (there are many).
—bookworm49

The characters didn't really ring true for me... liked his other books more.
—thcjtrfg

Great for a book club because it generates lots of discussion.
—b33z

Actually 4.5 stars.
—Sheila

Write Review

(Review will shown on site after approval)

Read books by author Robert Hellenga

Read books in category Fiction