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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Praiseworthy
    sub title: fiction
  name:
    name part: Wright, Alexis
    name part: 1950-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: novel
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xna
    date issued: 2023
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 727 pages ; 21 cm.
  abstract: 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.
  note: Alexis Wright.
  subject:
    topic: Families
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Small cities
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Aboriginal Australians
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Oppression (Psychology)
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Australian fiction
  classification: PR9619.3.W67 P73 2023
  classification: 823.4
  identifier: 9781922725745 (hardcover.)
  identifier: 1922725749 (hardcover.)
  identifier: 9781922725325
  identifier: 1922725323
  record info:
    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 221219
    record change date: 20231110171404.9
    record identifier: in00004751543