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Title Statement | Carpentaria / Alexis Wright. |
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Series | New Directions paperbook |
Author | Wright, Alexis, 1950- |
Publication | New York: New Directions Paperbook,2023.©2006 |
Extent of Item | 466 pages ; |
ISBN | 9780811238038 (trade paperback) |
Other Number | pr07344529 |
General Notes | Originally published: Artarmon, N.S.W.: Giramondo, 2006. |
Summary | Set in the precariously settled coastal town of Desperance, this novel is the portrait of the powerful Phantom family, leader of the Westend Pricklebush people, and its battles with old Joseph Midnight's renegade Eastend mob on the one hand, and the white officials of Uptown and the neighbouring Gurfurrit mine on the other. |
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By Topic | Indigenous peoples--Fiction--Australia--Queensland |
By Location | Queensland--Fiction--Social life and customs |
By Genre | Political fiction |
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