Carpentaria by Alexis Wright (2006-1st) Contemporary Australian Novel, Paperback

CarpentariaWright, Alexis\nPublished by Giramondo, Sydney, 2006. First edition. Paperback - bound in the original illustrated card covers, minor wear to the extremities. Pages with a little age toning, but overall clean and tight. Wright won the Miles Franklin Award (and a host of other prestigious awards) for this epic novel set in the Gulf country of north-eastern Queensland. \nSet in the precariously settled coastal town of Desperance, Carpentaria is the unforgettable portrait of the powerful Phantom family, leader of the Westend Pricklebush people, and its battles with old Joseph Midnight's renegade Eastend mob on the one hand, and the white officials of Uptown and the neighbouring Gurfurrit mine on the other. By turns operatic and surreal, Wright's stunning and richly imagined storytelling is a blend of myth and scripture, farce and politics. Her extraordinary characters - Elias Smith the outcast saviour, the religious zealot Mozzie Fishman, the murderous mayor Stan By