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

Wright, Alexis
Plains of Promise - An extraordinary novel from the winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award and the Stella Prize

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

Wright, Alexis

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A masterful novel from the only writer to have won both the Miles Franklin Literary Award and the Stella Prize


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.

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

9780702265839


Pages:   320
Publication Date:   30 August 2022
Bind Format:   Paperback
Availability:  
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A masterful novel from the only writer to have won both the Miles Franklin Literary Award and the Stella Prize


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

9780702265839


Pages:   320
Publication Date:   30 August 2022
Bind Format:   Paperback
Availability:  
This item is in stock and will be dispatched immediately.
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