The resulting text is experimental, allegorical, sometimes humorous and often startlingly lyrical. Alexis wright, a member of the waanyi nation of the southern highlands of the gulf of carpentaria, is product details. All continue a central preoccupation of the earlier iction by. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the us or from the uk, depending on stock availability. Carpentaria is the second novel by the indigenous australian author alexis wright. Read free book excerpt from carpentaria by alexis wright, page 1 of 5. Carpentaria by alexis wright 9781920882310 booktopia. Jul 30, 2016 carpentaria, by alexis wright i may have mentioned before that i enjoyed this book. It is huge, and difficult, and sublime, and it is all the better for being all of those things. Carpentaria is alexis wright s second novel, an epic set in the gulf country of northwestern queensland. The novels portrait of life in the precariously settled coastal town of desperance centres on the powerful phantom family, leader of the westend pricklebush people, and its battles with old joseph midnights renegade eastend mob on the one hand, and the white officials of uptown and the neighbouring gurfurrit mine on the other. Her acclaimed first novel plains of promise was published in 1997 by university of queensland press and was shortlisted in the commonwealth writers prize, the age book of.
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