Plains of Promise
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In this brilliant debut 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.
Book information
ISBN: | 9780702229176 |
Publisher: | University of Queensland Press |
Imprint: | University of Queensland Press |
Pub date: | 01 Mar 1997 |
Language: | English |
Number of pages: | 304 |
Weight: | 227g |
Height: | 203mm |
Width: | 127mm |
Spine width: | 19mm |