Title The multiple effects of rainshadow / Thea Astley

Published Ringwood, Vic. ; New York : Viking, 1996 Ringwood, Vic. : Viking, 1996

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Description 296 pages ; 21 cm regular print Summary In the little hours of January morning in 1930, onan island off the Queensland coast, a mangoes berserk with a rifle and a box of gelignite. Is he evil? Or crazy? His violence is in fact a mirror for the brutality of Australian life - and is a dim reflection at that, in a country where atrocities by whites against blacks are so ingrained few question them Notes CIP confirmed Miles Franklin Literary Award, 1997 shortlist Subject Aboriginal Australians -- Social conditions -- Fiction. Atrocities in literature. Atrocities -- Fiction. Australian fiction -- 20th century -- Women authors. Australian fiction. Racism -- Australia -- Fiction. SUBJECT Queensland -- Fiction. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008116480 Australia -- Fiction. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100473 Australia -- Race relations http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100476 -- Fiction. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001562 Queensland, Northern -- Fiction Genre/Form Fiction. LC no. 97165008 ISBN 0670872164

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