Ruby Moonlight a novel of the impact of colonisation in mid-north South Australia around 1880 /
Tells the story of a young Aboriginal woman in the late nineteenth century who survives the massacre of her entire family. Wandering alone through Ngadjuri land, in South Australia, she encounters a luckless Irish trapper whose loneliness matches her own. Drawn together for comfort, they discover a...
| Основен автор: | Cobby Eckermann, Ali, 1963- |
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| Формат: | Електронен |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Sydney :
Magabala Books,
2012.
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| Онлайн достъп: |
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| Подобни документи: |
Print version::
Ruby Moonlight. |
| Резюме: |
Tells the story of a young Aboriginal woman in the late nineteenth century who survives the massacre of her entire family. Wandering alone through Ngadjuri land, in South Australia, she encounters a luckless Irish trapper whose loneliness matches her own. Drawn together for comfort, they discover a momentary paradise along riverbanks and across arid plains that proves fragile in the face of frontier violence and colonization. Ruby Moonlight, a novel of the impact of colonisation in mid north South Australia around 1880. The main character, Ruby, refugee of a massacre, shelters in the woods where she befriends an Irishman trapper. The poems convey how fear of discovery is overcome by the need for human contact, which, in a tense unravelling of events, is forcibly challenged by an Aboriginal lawman. The natural world is richly observed and Ruby's courtship is measured by the turning of the seasons. |
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| Физически характеристики: |
1 online resource (80 pages) |
| Награди: |
Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry, 2013. Deadly Awards, Outstanding Achievement in Literature, 2012. |
| ISBN: |
9781921248641 1921248645 9781921248665 1921248661 |