Plains of promise
Wright, Alexis, 1950-2022
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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 Mission, they are immediately separated and Ivy's life changes irrevocably. Years later, Mary, a young woman who is working for a city-based Aboriginal Coalition, visits the old Mission and learns of her mother's and grandmother's suffering there. Mary's return reignites community anxieties, leading the Council of Elders to again turn to their spirit world.
Main title:
Plains of promise / Alexis Wright ; [with an introduction by Geordie Williamson].
Author:
Wright, Alexis, 1950-, authorWilliamson, Geordie, author of introduction
Work:
Edition:
25th anniversary edition.
Imprint:
St Lucia, Queensland : University of Queensland Press, 2022.©2022
Collation:
xiv, 305 pages ; 23 cm.
Notes:
First published: 1997.
ISBN:
9780702265839 (paperback)
Dewey class:
A823.4
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
229303