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Carpentaria

By Alexis Wright

Carpentaria Contemporary literature

Carpentaria

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Set in the precariously settled coastal town of Desperance, Carpentaria is the unforgettable 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. By turns operatic and surreal, Wright's stunning and richly imagined storytelling is a blend of myth and scripture, farce and politics. Her extraordinary characters - Elias Smith the outcast saviour, the religious zealot Mozzie Fishman, the murderous mayor Stan Bruiser, the moth-ridden Captain Nicoli Finn, the activist and prodigal son Will Phantom, and above all, the rulers of the family, the queen of the rubbish-dump and the fish-embalming king of time, Angel Day and Normal Phantom - stride like giants in this storm-swept world.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
512
Release Date:
2009-05-28
Publication Date:
2009-05-28
Publisher:
Little, Brown Book Group
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1845299485
ISBN13:
9781845299484
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
406 g
Height:
127 cm
Width:
194 cm
Thickness:
35 cm

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