Carpentaria - Alexis Wright
Category: Novel
Narrator: Isaac Drandich
Tags: Novel, General Fiction, Adults, Literature
Winner Miles Franklin Literary Award 2007, A literary sensation. The New York Times Book Review, Rarely does an author have such control of her words and her story: Wrights prose soars between the mythical and the colloquial. Publishers Weekly, Carpentaria is Alexis Wrights second novel, an epic set in the Gulf country of north-western Queensland. The novels 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 Midnights renegade Eastend mob on the one hand, and the white officials of Uptown and the neighbouring Gurfurrit mine on the other., Wrights storytelling is operatic and surreal: a blend of myth and scripture, farce and politics. The novel teems with extraordinary characters - Elias Smith the outcast saviour, the religious zealot Mozzie Fishman, the murderous mayor Stan Bruiser, the moth-ridden Captain Nicoli Finn, the activist and prodigal son Wi
