The Swan Book by Alexis Wright
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This is the saddest love story I have ever read.. Like the best fiction, it is excessive, impossible to contain in any review * Sydney Review of Books *
One of the most beautiful, furious and urgent novels to be published [in Australia] in recent years * The Australian *
This is not myth as Western culture understands it: not an imagined dimension, but a literal if incorporeal one that bisects and animates the physical world; it makes for marvellous theatre * London Review of Books *
[A] bruising, beautiful, brutal narrative ... a bitter, lovely and tragic book * Australian Book Review *
Rich with allegory and symbolism, this wild, explosive story blends the myths and legends of numerous cultures in a dystopian near future ... profound ... Significant and contemporary * Booklist *
Astonishingly inventive * The Oprah Magazine *
One of the most beautiful, furious and urgent novels to be published [in Australia] in recent years * The Australian *
This is not myth as Western culture understands it: not an imagined dimension, but a literal if incorporeal one that bisects and animates the physical world; it makes for marvellous theatre * London Review of Books *
[A] bruising, beautiful, brutal narrative ... a bitter, lovely and tragic book * Australian Book Review *
Rich with allegory and symbolism, this wild, explosive story blends the myths and legends of numerous cultures in a dystopian near future ... profound ... Significant and contemporary * Booklist *
Astonishingly inventive * The Oprah Magazine *
Alexis Wright is a member of the Waanyi nation of the southern highlands of the Gulf of Carpentaria. Her books include Grog War, a study of alcohol abuse in Tennant Creek, and the novels Plains of Promise, and Carpentaria, which won the Miles Franklin Literary Award, the Victorian and Queensland Premiers' Awards and the ALS Gold Medal, and was published in the US, UK, China, Italy, France, Spain and Poland. She is a Distinguished Fellow in the University of Western Sydney's Writing and Society Research Centre.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781472120571 |
| ISBN 10 | 1472120574 |
| Title | The Swan Book |
| Author | Alexis Wright |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Year published | 2016-04-07 |
| Number of pages | 352 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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