Carpentaria

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Good
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Giramondo
Publisher Place:
Publisher Year: 2006
Edition: Reprint

Description: 519 pages. Book is in general good condition. There is some light reading wear present, but still a presentable copy.

Publishers Description: Carpentaria is an epic novel set in the Gulf country of north western Queensland. The novels 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 Midnights renegade Eastend mob on the one hand, and the white officials of Uptown and the neighbouring Gurfurrit mine on the other. Alexis Wright is a member of the Waanyi nation of the southern highlands of the Gulf of Carpentaria.

ISBN: 9781920882310