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That Deadman Dance

Author: Kim Scott and Humphrey Bower  

Set in Western Australia in the first decades of the nineteenth century, That Deadman Dance is a vast, gorgeous novel about the first contact between the Aboriginal Noongar people and the new European settlers.

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Set in Western Australia in the first decades of the nineteenth century, That Deadman Dance is a vast, gorgeous novel about the first contact between the Aboriginal Noongar people and the new European settlers.

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In playful, musical prose, this audiobook explores the early contact between the Aboriginal Noongar people and the first European settlers, in the area what is now Albany, Western Australia.The novel's hero is a young Noongar man named Bobby Wabalanginy. Clever, resourceful and eager to please, Bobby befriends the new arrivals, joining them hunting whales, tilling the land, exploring the hinterland and establishing the fledgling colony. He is even welcomed into a prosperous local white family where he falls for the daughter, Christine, a beautiful young woman who sees no harm in a liaison with a native.But slowly – by design and by accident – things begin to change. Not everyone is happy with how the colony is developing. Stock mysteriously start to disappear, crops are destroyed, there are ‘accidents’ and injuries on both sides. As the Europeans impose ever stricter rules and regulations in order to keep the peace, Bobby's Elders decide they must respond in kind.A friend to everyone, Bobby is forced to take sides: he must choose between the old world and the new, his ancestors and his new friends. Inexorably, he is drawn into a series of events that will forever change not just the colony but the future of Australia ...

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Critic Reviews

‘‘Fresh and original in its re-imagining the first years of contact between the Noongar people, British colonists and American whalers, That Deadman Dance explores the lively fascination these people felt for one another. It’s a testimony to Kim Scott’s skill and restraint that, right from the beginning, he leaves the reader’s own awareness of history to cast the long shadow of tragedy over the story. The result is a brilliant feat of understanding - a novel rich in compassion - from a writer bewitched by the thrill of breathing life into the past." -- Rodney Hall, Miles Franklin Award winning author of Love Without Hope
"Scott’s enormous achievement then, in this fascinating and beautiful book, is to register that openness as it once existed, and, without judgement or didacticism, and only a quiet nod to the tragedy that was and continued to unfold, to give us a poetic and wise vision of what form our cultural life could still take today.Surely Kim Scott, with That Deadman Dance, has one hand on next year’s Miles?" -- Readings

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About the Author

Kim Scott is a multi-award winning Noongar author from Western Australia. He began writing for publication when he became an English teacher and has had poetry and short stories published in a number of anthologies. Kim’s Benang was the first novel by an Indigenous writer to win the Miles Franklin Award, and in 2011, he won both the Miles Franklin and the Australian Literature Society’s Gold Medal with That Deadman Dance. In 2012, he was made a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities and also named Western Australian of the Year.Scott's novel Taboo won both the Indigenous Writers' Prize and the Book of the Year in the 2018 New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards. Humphrey Bower is a gifted and versatile actor. Since obtaining a BA (Hons) in English Language and Literature at Oxford University, he has worked extensively in theatre, television and audiobook narration. Humphrey won the prestigious Audie Award (US) for his performance of The Family Frying Pan by Bryce Courtenay, and was shortlisted for an Audie Award for his performances of Gould's Book of Fish by Richard Flanagan and Brother Fish by Bryce Courtenay. Humphrey's sensitive and intelligent readings are highly regarded and he is well-known for his capacity to perform a variety of accents.

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Product Details

Publisher
Bolinda Publishing | ABC Audio
Published
28th September 2011
ISBN
9781743101926

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