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Plains of Promise

$28.00

Plains of Promise

SKU: 9780702265839 Category: Product ID: 445441

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Title: Plains of Promise
Author: WRIGHT ALEXIS
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 30/08/2022
Imprint: UNI OF QUEENSLAND PRESS
Price: $28.00
Publishing status: Active

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.

ISBN: 9780702265839
Pages: 320