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True Country ebook
- About the Book
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Kim Scott captures the ambiguities, the troubles and the rewards which accompany the brutal and delicate nuances of relations when particles of one culture pass, as if through a fine sieve, into the heart of another culture.
Elizabeth Jolley‘True Country, Kim Scott’s first novel, is superb’ — Sydney Morning Herald
‘This vital, often lyrical and always uncompromising novel marks an impressive debut’ — Australian Book Review
‘… a superb novel, original in conception and wonderfully evocative’ — The Australian
Billy is drifting, looking for a place to land. A young school teacher, he arrives in Australia’s remote far north in search of his own history, his Aboriginality, and his future. He finds himself in a region of abundance and beauty but also of conflict, dispossession and dislocation. On the desperate frontier between cultures, Billy must find his place of belonging.
- Categories
- ebooks, Indigenous Writing, Current Affairs, Culture & Social History, Adult Fiction
- Publication Year
- 2009
- Edition
- 2nd
- Publisher
- Fremantle Press
- ISBN13
- 9781921888656
- HB/PB
- Ebook
- Format
- Ebook
- Pages
- 304
- Other Editions
- Teaching Notes
- TRUE COUNTRY TEACHING NOTES.pdf
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From the Catalogue
Wilderness Society Award
Congratulations to Sally Morgan whose book The Last Dance won the Wilderness Society’s 2013 Environment Award for Children’s Literature. Meg McKinlay and Kyle Hughes-Odgers were also shortlisted in the same category for Ten Tiny Things