Plains of Promise

by Mykaela Saunders and Alexis Wright

In this brilliant novel, Alexis Wright evokes city and outback, deepening our understanding of human ambition and failure, and making the timeless heart and soul of this country pulsate on the page. In the 1950s Gulf Country of Queensland's far North, black and white cultures collide in a thousand ways as Aboriginal spirituality clashes with the complex brutality of colonisation at St Dominic's Mission. When Ivy Koopundi and her mother arrive at the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0702268585
• ISBN13: 9780702268588
• Release Date: September 2024
• Publisher: University of Queensland Pr (Australia)
• Length: 416 Pages