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Carpentaria / Alexis Wright.

By: Contributor(s): Series: University of Western Sydney. Writing & Society Research GroupPublication details: Artarmon, N.S.W. : Giramondo, 2006.Description: 519 p. ; 24 cmContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 1920882170 (pbk.) :
  • 9781920882174 (pbk.)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 823.4
Awards:
  • Miles Franklin Literary Award 2007 Winner
Summary: Centred on the precariously settled coastal town of Desperance, a township shaped by cyclones, monsoonal floods and a river that spurns human endeavour with its incomprehensible tides, it tells the story of the powerful Phantom family. Led by Norm Phantom, the great fish-embalming king of time, legendary storyteller, suspected murderer and leader of the Pricklebush people, the Phantoms battle to retain sovereignty over a country where "legends and ghosts live side by side". Sovereignty depends on stories. The official version of the region's history makes no mention of the Phantoms or the Great War of the Dump that burst the Pricklebush people apart and set Eastsider against Westsider. Nor does it mention the old tribal tensions that resurfaced and the search for lost ancestral stories that lay claim to traditional ownership.
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Item type Current library Call number Status Notes Date due Barcode
Book Book Jessie Street National Women's Library General Stacks 823.4 WRI (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available for reference in the library and ILL Signed by the author 67660

"Published ... for the Writing & Society Research Group at the University of Western Sydney"--T.p. verso.

Library copy signed by the author.

Centred on the precariously settled coastal town of Desperance, a township shaped by cyclones, monsoonal floods and a river that spurns human endeavour with its incomprehensible tides, it tells the story of the powerful Phantom family. Led by Norm Phantom, the great fish-embalming king of time, legendary storyteller, suspected murderer and leader of the Pricklebush people, the Phantoms battle to retain sovereignty over a country where "legends and ghosts live side by side". Sovereignty depends on stories. The official version of the region's history makes no mention of the Phantoms or the Great War of the Dump that burst the Pricklebush people apart and set Eastsider against Westsider. Nor does it mention the old tribal tensions that resurfaced and the search for lost ancestral stories that lay claim to traditional ownership.

Miles Franklin Literary Award 2007 Winner

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