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Atria Books
April 2010
On Sale: April 1, 2010
Featuring: Norm Phantom; Joseph Midnight
528 pages
ISBN: 1439157847
EAN: 9781439157848
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Alexis Wright is one of Australia's finest writers, a member
of the Waanyi nation of the southern highlands of the Gulf
of Carpentaria. Her books inlcude Grog War, a study of
alcohol abuse in the outback town of Tennant Creek, and the
novel Plains of Promise, which was shortlisted for the
Commonwealth Prize, the Age Book of the Year Award and the
NSW Premier's Award for Fiction, and translated into French
as Les Plaines de l'espoir. In the sparsely populated northern Queensland town of
Desperance, battle lines have been drawn in the disputes
among the powerful Phantom family of the Westend
Pricklebush, Joseph Midnight’s renegade Eastend mob, and the
white officials of neighboring towns. Trapped between
politics and principle, past and present, the indigenous
tribes fight to protect their natural resources, sacred
sites, and, above all, their people. Steeped in myth
and magical realism, Wright’s hypnotic storytelling exposes
the heartbreaking realities of Aboriginal life. Carpentaria teems with extraordinary,
larger-than-life characters who transcend their
circumstances and challenge assumptions about the
downtrodden "other." The novel "bursts with life" (Daily
Telegraph) as Alexis Wright re-creates the land and its
people with mysticism, stark reality, and pointed imagination.
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