Synopsis
"Carpentaria" is an epic of the Gulf country of north-western Queensland. Its 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 2007 on the one hand, and the white officials of Uptown and the neighbouring Gurfurrit mine on the other. Wright’s storytelling is operatic and surreal: a blend of myth and scripture, politics and farce. The novel teems with extraordinary characters – the outcast saviour Elias Smith, the religious zealot Mozzie Fishman, the murderous mayor Bruiser, the moth-ridden Captain Nicoli Finn, the activist Will Phantom, and above all, the rulers of the family, the queen of the rubbish-dump and the fish-embalming king of time, Angel Day and Normal Phantom – figures of such an intense imagining, they stand like giants in this storm-swept world.
Titre original : Carpentaria (2006)
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3 éditions pour ce livre
2009 
Editions Actes Sud (Lettres des Antipodes)
Traduit par Pierre FURLAN
512 pages
septembre 2009
ISBN : 9782742784875
2006 
Editions IFWG Publishing Australia
520 pages
2006 Editions Constable
499 pages
ISBN : 9781845299484
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