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Carpentaria
Alexis Wright
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,
Artarmon
:
Giramondo Publishing
,
2006
Z1184902
2006
single work
novel
(
taught in 47 units
)
Abstract
Carpentaria's 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 with old Joseph Midnight's tearaway 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 is populated by extraordinary characters - Elias Smith the outcast saviour, the religious zealot Mozzie Fishman, leader of the holy Aboriginal pilgrimage, the murderous mayor Stan Bruiser, the ever-vigilant Captain Nicoli Finn, the activist and prodigal son Will Phantom, and above all, Angel Day the queen of the rubbish-dump, and her sea-faring husband Normal Phantom, the fish-embalming king of time - figures that stand like giants in this storm-swept world. (Backcover)
Cocky's Calendar : Poems
David Campbell
,
Adelaide
:
Australian Letters
,
1961
Z823129
1961
sequence
poetry
(
taught in 1 units
)
— Appears in:
Hardening of the Light : Selected Poems
2006
;
(
p.
47-52
)
The Fittest
George Turner
,
1985
single work
short story
science fiction
(
taught in 1 units
)
— Appears in:
Urban Fantasies
1985
;
(
p.
105-131
)
A Pursuit of Miracles : Eight Stories
1990
;
(
p.
173-207
)
Mortal Fire : Best Australian Science Fiction
1993
;
(
p.
229-262
)
Abstract
'George Turner's story "The Fittest" evokes the concept of "culling," a deliberate scientific attempt to reduce the world's population' (Colin Steele,
SF Commentary
No 77 2001, p.52)
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