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The Hunter
by Julie Leigh.
Penguin, Camberwell (Vic), 1999.
First Edition paperback.
Cover photograph by Jeff Hunter.
Leigh’s much acclaimed first novel about a scientist’s journey into the Tasmanian wilderness to capture the DNA of the last living Tasmanian Tiger.
‘Julia Leigh has described her attraction ”to the idea of a dramatic hunt for a mythical creature,” a fascination sharpened by her reading of ”Moby-Dick.” M does appear as a kind of antipodean Ahab, a megalomaniac converted into pure will by his obsession. But M’s strongest affinity is with the emotionally stripped, metaphysically minded men who drive J. M. Coetzee’s novels. (What could be more Coetzee-like than a misanthropic hunter’s meditation on the dream life of a ghostly predator that he seeks to kill?). (Rob Nixon, ‘Burning Bright’, New York Times, 17 December 2000).
Condition: First page is loose bottom of spine, pages tanned and a little brittle.
