Plains of Promise: An extraordinary novel from the winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award and the Stella Prize

Author:   Alexis Wright
Publisher:   University of Queensland Press
ISBN:  

9780702229176


Pages:   1
Publication Date:   03 April 1997
Format:   Paperback
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Plains of Promise: An extraordinary novel from the winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award and the Stella Prize


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In this brilliant novel, Alexis Wright evokes city and outback, deepening our understanding of human ambition and failure, and making the timeless heart and soul of this country pulsate on the page. Black and white cultures collide in a thousand ways as Aboriginal spirituality clashes with the complex brutality of colonisation at St Dominic's mission. With her political awareness raised by work with the city-based Aboriginal Coalition, Mary visits the old mission in the northern Gulf country, place of her mother's and grand-mother's suffering. Mary's return re-ignites community anxieties, and the Council of Elders again turn to their spirit world.

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Author:   Alexis Wright
Publisher:   University of Queensland Press
Imprint:   University of Queensland Press
Dimensions:   Width: 13.10cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 19.80cm
Weight:   0.261kg
ISBN:  

9780702229176


ISBN 10:   0702229172
Pages:   1
Publication Date:   03 April 1997
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Awaiting stock   Availability explained

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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 Plains of Promise, 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).

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