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Carpentarias portrait of life in the precariously sett. Meera atkinson is a sydneybased writer, poet and scholar. The novel bursts with life daily telegraph as alexis wright recreates the land and its people with mysticism, stark reality, and pointed imagination. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. Alexis wright is a member of the waanyi nation of the southern highlands of the gulf of carpentaria. The pricklebush people live permanently in carnival time, free of rules, where. Her books include grog war, a study of alcohol abuse in tennant creek, and the novels. Carpentarias portrait of life in the precariously settled coastal town of desperance centres on the powerful phantom family, whose members are the leaders of the pricklebush people, and their battles. Alexis wrights carpentaria is the story of the phantom family, members of the pricklebush people, who live in the fictional town of desperance in the gulf country of northwestern queensland. Carpentaria is her second novel, a soaring epic set in the gulf country of north western queensland, from. Carpentaria is the second novel by the indigenous australian author alexis wright. Grog war, a study of alcohol abuse in the northern territory. It is a long and sprawling carnivalesque novel that offers a cautiously positive outlook for aboriginal people that also recognises the difficulties of. Carpentaria, alexis wrights timeslipping tale of an aboriginal mystic, impresses jem poster jem poster fri 25 apr 2008 19.
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