![]() ![]() Wright's storytelling is operatic and surreal: a blend of myth and scripture, farce and politics. ![]() The novel's 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 on the one hand, and the white officials of Uptown and the neighbouring Gurfurrit mine on the other. Carpentaria is her second novel, an epic set in the Gulf country of north-western Queensland, from where her people come. ![]() Alexis Wright is one of Australia's finest Aboriginal writers. ![]()
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