• Carpentaria

    Carpentaria

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    Carpentaria is an epic of the Gulf country of north-western Queensland.

    Winner, Miles Franklin Literary Award Winner
    ALS Gold Medal Winner
    Queensland Premier’s Literary Award Winner
    Victorian Premier’s Literary Award

    Wright’s storytelling is operatic and surreal: a blend of myth and scripture, politics and farce.

    Carpentaria  is a 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 Midnight’s renegade Eastend mob 2007 on the one hand, and the white officials of Uptown and the neighbouring Gurfurrit mine on the other.