Carpentaria
$26.88
- Paperback
528 pages
- Release Date
30 April 2023
Summary
Carpentaria: An Epic Australian Saga
One of the classics of Australian literature, Alexis Wright’s Miles Franklin award-winning novel is being rereleased in a new edition.
Carpentaria is an epic of the Gulf country of north-western Queensland. Its 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 Midnight’s renegade…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781922725400 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1922725404 |
| Author: | Alexis Wright |
| Publisher: | Giramondo Publishing Co |
| Imprint: | Giramondo Publishing Co |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 528 |
| Release Date: | 30 April 2023 |
| Weight: | 572g |
| Dimensions: | 45mm x 211mm x 155mm |
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About The Author
Alexis Wright
Alexis Wright is a member of the Waanyi nation of the southern highlands of the Gulf of Carpentaria. The author of the prize-winning novels Carpentaria and The Swan Book, Wright has published three works of non-fiction: Take Power, an oral history of the Central Land Council; Grog War, a study of alcohol abuse in the Northern Territory; and Tracker, an award-winning collective memoir of Aboriginal leader, Tracker Tilmouth. Her books have been published widely overseas, including in China, the US, the UK, Italy, France and Poland. She holds the position of Boisbouvier Chair in Australian Literature at the University of Melbourne. Wright is the only author to win both the Miles Franklin Award (in 2007 for Carpentaria) and the Stella Prize (in 2018 for Tracker). Alexis Wright’s fourth novel, Praiseworthy, will be published in early 2023.
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