The Resource Carpentaria, Alexis Wright
Carpentaria, Alexis Wright
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The item Carpentaria, Alexis Wright represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library.
This item is available to borrow from 2 library branches.
This resource has been enriched with EBSCO NoveList data.
- Summary
- Centred on the precariously settled coastal town of Desperance, a township shaped by cyclones, monsoonal floods and a river that spurns human endeavour with its incomprehensible tides, it tells the story of the powerful Phantom family. Led by Norm Phantom, the great fish-embalming king of time, legendary storyteller, suspected murderer and leader of the Pricklebush people, the Phantoms battle to retain sovereignty over a country where "legends and ghosts live side by side". Sovereignty depends on stories. The official version of the region's history makes no mention of the Phantoms or the Great War of the Dump that burst the Pricklebush people apart and set Eastsider against Westsider. Nor does it mention the old tribal tensions that resurfaced and the search for lost ancestral stories that lay claim to traditional ownership
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 519 p.
- Note
- "Published ... for the Writing & Society Research Group at the University of Western Sydney"--T.p. verso
- Isbn
- 9781920882174
- Label
- Carpentaria
- Title
- Carpentaria
- Statement of responsibility
- Alexis Wright
- Title variation
- Carpenteria
- Subject
-
- Aboriginal Australians -- Folklore -- Fiction
- trueAustralia -- Race relations
- Australian fiction
- Carpentaria, Gulf of (N.T. and Qld.) -- Fiction
- trueCoastal towns
- trueEccentrics and eccentricities
- trueFamilies
- trueKinship-based society
- Land tenure -- Australia -- Fiction
- trueMayors
- trueMines and mineral resources
- trueMurderers
- trueNatural disasters
- truePolice
- trueQueensland
- Queensland -- History -- Fiction
- Aboriginal Australian literature
- trueSocial classes and family
- trueStorytelling
- trueStorytelling in literature
- Winners circle
- trueRace relations
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Centred on the precariously settled coastal town of Desperance, a township shaped by cyclones, monsoonal floods and a river that spurns human endeavour with its incomprehensible tides, it tells the story of the powerful Phantom family. Led by Norm Phantom, the great fish-embalming king of time, legendary storyteller, suspected murderer and leader of the Pricklebush people, the Phantoms battle to retain sovereignty over a country where "legends and ghosts live side by side". Sovereignty depends on stories. The official version of the region's history makes no mention of the Phantoms or the Great War of the Dump that burst the Pricklebush people apart and set Eastsider against Westsider. Nor does it mention the old tribal tensions that resurfaced and the search for lost ancestral stories that lay claim to traditional ownership
- Award
-
- Australian Book Industry Awards, Literary Fiction Book of the Year, 2007.
- Australian Literature Society Gold Medal, 2007.
- Miles Franklin Award, 2007.
- Queensland Premier's Literary Awards, Fiction Book Award, 2007.
- Victorian Premier's Literary Awards, Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction, 2007.
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 180287
- Cataloging source
- ANL
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1950-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Wright, Alexis
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- novels
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
- University of Western Sydney
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Storytelling in literature
- Aboriginal Australians
- Land tenure
- Queensland
- Carpentaria, Gulf of (N.T. and Qld.)
- Label
- Carpentaria, Alexis Wright
- Note
- "Published ... for the Writing & Society Research Group at the University of Western Sydney"--T.p. verso
- Control code
- 000040346918
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- 519 p.
- Form of item
- regular print reproduction
- Isbn
- 9781920882174
- Isbn Type
- (pbk.)
- Label
- Carpentaria, Alexis Wright
- Note
- "Published ... for the Writing & Society Research Group at the University of Western Sydney"--T.p. verso
- Control code
- 000040346918
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- 519 p.
- Form of item
- regular print reproduction
- Isbn
- 9781920882174
- Isbn Type
- (pbk.)
Subject
- Aboriginal Australians -- Folklore -- Fiction
- trueAustralia -- Race relations
- Australian fiction
- Carpentaria, Gulf of (N.T. and Qld.) -- Fiction
- trueCoastal towns
- trueEccentrics and eccentricities
- trueFamilies
- trueKinship-based society
- Land tenure -- Australia -- Fiction
- trueMayors
- trueMines and mineral resources
- trueMurderers
- trueNatural disasters
- truePolice
- trueQueensland
- Queensland -- History -- Fiction
- Aboriginal Australian literature
- trueSocial classes and family
- trueStorytelling
- trueStorytelling in literature
- Winners circle
- trueRace relations
Genre
Included in
- trueMiles Franklin Award (Australia)
- trueQueensland Premier's Literary Awards: Fiction Book Award
- trueVictorian Premier's Literary Awards: Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction
- trueAustralian Book Industry Awards: Literary Fiction Book of the Year
- trueAustralian Classics
- trueAustralian Literature Society Gold Medal
- Award
- Australian Book Industry Awards, Literary Fiction Book of the Year, 2007.
- Award
- Australian Literature Society Gold Medal, 2007.
- Award
- Miles Franklin Award, 2007.
- Award
- Queensland Premier's Literary Awards, Fiction Book Award, 2007.
- Award
- Victorian Premier's Literary Awards, Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction, 2007.
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