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Praiseworthy is an epic set in the north of Australia, told with the richness of language and scale of imagery for which Alexis Wright has become renowned. In a small town dominated by a haze cloud, which heralds both an ecological catastrophe and a gathering of the ancestors, a crazed visionary seeks out donkeys as the solution to the global climate crisis and the economic dependency of the Aboriginal people. His wife seeks solace from his madness in following the dance of butterflies and scouring the internet to find out how she can seek repatriation for her Aboriginal/Chinese family to China. One of their sons, called Aboriginal Sovereignty, is determined to commit suicide. The other, Tommyhawk, wishes his brother dead so that he can pursue his dream of becoming white and powerful. This is a novel which pushes allegory and language to its limits, a cry of outrage against oppression and disadvantage, and a fable for the end of days.
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Praiseworthy (Hardcover)
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ISBN 10: 1922725749
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Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. **Winner, Miles Franklin Literary Award 2024****Winner, Stella Prize 2024****Winner, Queensland Literary Awards, Fiction Book Award****Winner, The James Tait Black Prize, Fiction 2024****Winner, ALS Gold Medal 2024****Shortlisted, The Dublin Literary Award 2024****Shortlisted, Queensland Literary Awards 2023, Work of State Significance****Shortlisted, Margaret and Colin Roderick Literary Award 2024**The new novel from the internationally acclaimed, award-winning Australian author Alexis Wright.Praiseworthy is an epic set in the north of Australia, told with the richness of language and scale of imagery for which Alexis Wright has become renowned. In a small town dominated by a haze cloud, which heralds both an ecological catastrophe and a gathering of the ancestors, a crazed visionary seeks out donkeys as the solution to the global climate crisis and the economic dependency of the Aboriginal people. His wife seeks solace from his madness in following the dance of butterflies and scouring the internet to find out how she can seek repatriation for her Aboriginal/Chinese family to China. One of their sons, called Aboriginal Sovereignty, is determined to commit suicide. The other, Tommyhawk, wishes his brother dead so that he can pursue his dream of becoming white and powerful. This is a novel which pushes allegory and language to its limits, a cry of outrage against oppression and disadvantage, and a fable for the end of days.'Monumental.calls to mind the work of Thomas Bernhard or the quiet rage of Dostoyevsky.Praiseworthyblew me away.' Australian Book ReviewPraise for Alexis Wright:'The writing is the best in the country, some of the best in the world; we call to mind Alexis Wright when they talk about our country's great literary voice.' - Tara June Winch'I'm awed by the range, experiment and political intelligence of [Alexis Wright's] work, from fiction such as Carpentaria and The Swan Book, to her "collective memoir" of an Aboriginal elder in Tracker. As essayist, activist, novelist and oral historian she is vital on the subject of land and people.' - Robert Macfarlane, New York Times Book Review The new novel from the internationally acclaimed, award-winning Australian author Alexis Wright Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9781922725745
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ISBN 10: 1922725749
ISBN 13: 9781922725745
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Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. **Winner, Miles Franklin Literary Award 2024****Winner, Stella Prize 2024****Winner, Queensland Literary Awards, Fiction Book Award****Winner, The James Tait Black Prize, Fiction 2024****Winner, ALS Gold Medal 2024****Shortlisted, The Dublin Literary Award 2024****Shortlisted, Queensland Literary Awards 2023, Work of State Significance****Shortlisted, Margaret and Colin Roderick Literary Award 2024**The new novel from the internationally acclaimed, award-winning Australian author Alexis Wright.Praiseworthy is an epic set in the north of Australia, told with the richness of language and scale of imagery for which Alexis Wright has become renowned. In a small town dominated by a haze cloud, which heralds both an ecological catastrophe and a gathering of the ancestors, a crazed visionary seeks out donkeys as the solution to the global climate crisis and the economic dependency of the Aboriginal people. His wife seeks solace from his madness in following the dance of butterflies and scouring the internet to find out how she can seek repatriation for her Aboriginal/Chinese family to China. One of their sons, called Aboriginal Sovereignty, is determined to commit suicide. The other, Tommyhawk, wishes his brother dead so that he can pursue his dream of becoming white and powerful. This is a novel which pushes allegory and language to its limits, a cry of outrage against oppression and disadvantage, and a fable for the end of days.'Monumental.calls to mind the work of Thomas Bernhard or the quiet rage of Dostoyevsky.Praiseworthyblew me away.' Australian Book ReviewPraise for Alexis Wright:'The writing is the best in the country, some of the best in the world; we call to mind Alexis Wright when they talk about our country's great literary voice.' - Tara June Winch'I'm awed by the range, experiment and political intelligence of [Alexis Wright's] work, from fiction such as Carpentaria and The Swan Book, to her "collective memoir" of an Aboriginal elder in Tracker. As essayist, activist, novelist and oral historian she is vital on the subject of land and people.' - Robert Macfarlane, New York Times Book Review The new novel from the internationally acclaimed, award-winning Australian author Alexis Wright Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9781922725745
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ISBN 10: 1922725749
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Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. **Winner, Miles Franklin Literary Award 2024****Winner, Stella Prize 2024****Winner, Queensland Literary Awards, Fiction Book Award****Winner, The James Tait Black Prize, Fiction 2024****Winner, ALS Gold Medal 2024****Shortlisted, The Dublin Literary Award 2024****Shortlisted, Queensland Literary Awards 2023, Work of State Significance****Shortlisted, Margaret and Colin Roderick Literary Award 2024**The new novel from the internationally acclaimed, award-winning Australian author Alexis Wright.Praiseworthy is an epic set in the north of Australia, told with the richness of language and scale of imagery for which Alexis Wright has become renowned. In a small town dominated by a haze cloud, which heralds both an ecological catastrophe and a gathering of the ancestors, a crazed visionary seeks out donkeys as the solution to the global climate crisis and the economic dependency of the Aboriginal people. His wife seeks solace from his madness in following the dance of butterflies and scouring the internet to find out how she can seek repatriation for her Aboriginal/Chinese family to China. One of their sons, called Aboriginal Sovereignty, is determined to commit suicide. The other, Tommyhawk, wishes his brother dead so that he can pursue his dream of becoming white and powerful. This is a novel which pushes allegory and language to its limits, a cry of outrage against oppression and disadvantage, and a fable for the end of days.'Monumental.calls to mind the work of Thomas Bernhard or the quiet rage of Dostoyevsky.Praiseworthyblew me away.' Australian Book ReviewPraise for Alexis Wright:'The writing is the best in the country, some of the best in the world; we call to mind Alexis Wright when they talk about our country's great literary voice.' - Tara June Winch'I'm awed by the range, experiment and political intelligence of [Alexis Wright's] work, from fiction such as Carpentaria and The Swan Book, to her "collective memoir" of an Aboriginal elder in Tracker. As essayist, activist, novelist and oral historian she is vital on the subject of land and people.' - Robert Macfarlane, New York Times Book Review The new novel from the internationally acclaimed, award-winning Australian author Alexis Wright Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9781922725745
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Praiseworthy (First Edition)
Published by
Giramondo, Artarmon, 2023
ISBN 10: 1922725749
ISBN 13: 9781922725745
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Seller: Dan Pope Books, West Hartford, CT, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. Giramondo Press, Artarmon (Australia), 2023. First edition. First printing (with full number line including 1). This is the first Australian edition, the hardcover edition. (A trade paperback was published simultaneously.) Very Fine in a very fine jacket. A pristine unread copy. Comes with archival-quality mylar jacket protector. Smoke-free. Jacket is unpriced, as issued (not a book club edition, but the limited hardcover edition, released in a small press-run). This novel won the 2023 Queensland Literary Award for Fiction. An epic novel, 736 pages. After its initial publication in Australia by Giramondo Publishing in 2023, the novel came out in February 2024 in USA by New Directions. Shortlisted for the Dublin Literary Award, one of six books chosen by an international panel of judges from the longlist of 70 books. Wright is a member of the Waanyi nation. The novel was shortlisted for the James Tait Black Prize for Fiction. The novel also won the Stella Prize, which was described by the judges as 'a canon-crushing Australian novel for the ages. Praiseworthy is not only a great Australian novel perhaps the great Australian novel it is also a great Waanyi novel. And it is written in the wild hope that, one day, all Australian readers might understand just what that means.' In winning the Stella for Praiseworthy, Wright has become the first author to win the award twice, having previously received it in 2018 for Tracker, her collective memoir of Aboriginal leader Tracker Tilmouth. Seller Inventory # Fiction-Wright-2