- Hardcover: 320 pages
- Publisher: Picador; Revised edition edition (23 July 1999)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0330372904
- ISBN-13: 978-0330372909
- Product Dimensions: 19.8 x 13.5 x 3.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 4,223,800 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Snip Freeman is an artist with a passion for running away - from jobs, from friends, from lovers and from family. But the arrival of a cheque gives her new purpose and she advertises for a companion to journey into the Australian outback. "City boy" Dave is the first and only to respond.
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
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Gemmell writes brilliantly,
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This review is from: Cleave (Hardcover)
THE desolate landscapes of central Australia, eerily beautiful and cruel, are superbly evoked in Cleave. Nikki Gemmell's heroine, Snip Freeman, is a painter who, as a child, lived in the centre until her father Bud deserted her. Snip has occasionally lived with the Aborigines, but refuses to settle, flaunting her tough self-sufficiency. Prompted by her grandmother, she heads west from Sydney with a stranger, Dave, in search of Bud, her own childhood and, perhaps, a new life. Gemmell writes brilliantly about the journey, about Snip's insistence that she feels lust, not love, for Dave, and later, about Snip and her father marooned in the desert, both hallucinating as they run out of water and hope.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
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A powerful novel. I couldn't put it down.,
By A Customer
This review is from: Cleave (Hardcover)
I loved this book. It's a powerful novel with a wonderful driven energy. It's about a woman stranded in the desert - and the men she's escaping from and trying to find. Gemmell's voice is vivid and poetic, unlike any other I have read. She has created an intensely memorable character with her protaganist, Snip Freeman. I can imagine this novel having a huge fan base, particularly among the kind of readers who loved "The Beach." It's a book that had me in tears - and that doesn't happen often.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
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moving, elegant prose: a story to fire your imagination.,
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This review is from: Cleave (Hardcover)
Unputdownable, a peach of a tale in which the Australian outback is evoked with harshly beautiful prose; haunting. Can't wait for Ms Gemmell's next book.
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