Carpentaria by Alexis Wright

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Description "Carpentaria is Alexis Wrights second novel, an epic set in the Gulf country of north-western Queensland. The novel's 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 Midnight's renegade Eastend mob on the one hand, and the white officals of Uptown and the neighbouring Gurfurrit mine on the other.







Wright's stroytelling 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 Will Phantom, and above all, the queen of the rubbish dump Angel Day and her sea-faring husband Normal Phantom, the fish embalming king of time - figures that stride like giants across this storm-swept world."







"Wright breaks all the rules of grammar and syntax to sweep us along



on a great torrent of language that thrills and amazes with its inventiveness and humour and with the sheer power of its storytelling. It's brutal and confronting and it's sad and funny at the same time.



Like the Gulf Country itself, this is big enough to lose yourself in" (Sydney Morning Herald newspaper)







"A swelling, heaving tsunami of a novel: stinging, sinuous, salted with outrageous humour, sweetened by spiralling lyricism and swaggering with the confident promise of a tale documented by risk roguery and revelation" (The Australian newspaper)