false 633484 6 Carpentaria is an epic novel set in the Gulf country of north western Queensland. 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. Alexis Wright is a member of the Waanyi nation of the southern highlands of the Gulf of Carpentaria. 619778 2006 Carpentaria total:41|5:10|4:12|3:8|2:8|1:3| 41 141 154 21 2 0 false false Sun Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Nov 04 19:28:11 -0800 2009 Wed Nov 04 19:33:16 -0800 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Sun Oct 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 25 08:37:31 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 25 08:50:46 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun May 31 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun May 31 01:10:20 -0700 2009 Sun May 31 01:10:48 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Dec 08 12:11:57 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 08 12:13:27 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 1 false false Tue Mar 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jan 28 05:09:45 -0800 2009 Thu Jun 18 17:36:10 -0700 2009 "One evening in the driest grasses in the world, a child who was no stranger to her people, asked if anyone could find hope. The people of parable and prophecy pondered what was hopeless and finally declared they no longer knew what hope was. The clocks, tick-a-ty tock, looked as though they mi...more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Jul 10 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Apr 28 18:32:43 -0700 2008 Fri Jul 18 13:06:33 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Jan 11 00:37:42 -0800 2008 Tue Jan 15 18:01:26 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu May 28 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Apr 03 09:01:19 -0700 2009 Thu May 28 13:49:42 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Mar 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 11 02:54:02 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 11 02:56:14 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Tue Apr 07 10:02:14 -0700 2009 Thu May 07 08:20:50 -0700 2009
Ok, I've finally finished it and it's taking me forever to review it. A very challenging book for me, a North American with a North American background and education, to read. There are parts that really resonated with me, humor, gorg...more...]]> 1 0 false false Wed Sep 30 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Sep 19 06:55:09 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 30 15:07:21 -0700 2009
Do not recommend unless you are willing to read more without enjoyment than I am. This would have been a tought English assignment to get throug...]]> 0 0 false false Tue Sep 02 17:14:46 -0700 2008 Fri Apr 13 21:29:07 -0700 2007 Tue Sep 02 17:14:46 -0700 2008

Okay, a week in and I am still slowly reading this book and think I will probably have to give it back to the library before I have finsihed it.

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