Carpentaria
by Alexis Wright
- Used
- near fine
- Paperback
- Condition
- Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 1920882170
- ISBN 13
- 9781920882174
- Seller
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Traralgon, Victoria, Australia
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About This Item
Giramondo, Australia, 2006. Reprint. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. Trade Paperback. 519 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Giramondo, Australia, 2006. Reprint. *** CONDITION: This book is in near fine condition. More specifically: Covers have no creasing. Corners of covers are lightly bumped. Spine is uncreased. . Pages are clean and unmarked and in excellent condition. *** ABOUT THIS BOOK: Carpentaria is Alexis Wright's second novel, an epic set in the Gulf country of northwestern Queensland. The novel's portrait of life in the precariously settled coastal town of Desperance centres on 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. Wright's storytelling is operatic and surreal: a blend of myth and scripture, politics and farce. The novel teems with extraordinary characters - the outcast saviour Elias Smith, the religious zealot Mozzie Fishman, the murderous mayor Bruiser, the moth-ridden Captain Nicoli Finn, the activist 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 - figures of such an intense imagining, they stand like giants in this storm-swept world.... *** Quantity Available: 1. Category: Fiction; Australian; ISBN: 1920882170. ISBN/EAN: 9781920882174. Inventory No: 23110009.. 9781920882174
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- Bookseller
- Manyhills Books (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 23110009
- Title
- Carpentaria
- Author
- Alexis Wright
- Format/Binding
- Trade Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Reprint
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 1920882170
- ISBN 13
- 9781920882174
- Publisher
- Giramondo
- Place of Publication
- Australia
- Date Published
- 2006
- Keywords
- BZDB5 Fiction; Carpentaria
- Bookseller catalogs
- Australian; Fiction;
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- Reprint
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- Fine
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