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Plains of Promise
by Alexis Wright.
University of Queensland Press, St Lucia, 1997.
First Edition, paperback.
Cover design: Samantha Cook/Peter Evans.
Alexis Wright’s pioneering first novel on intergenerational dispossession and exile:
“What I try to do in my writing is make some sense of our world, the stupidity of it, the despair of it, and create a record of it. In [the novel] Plains of Promise (UQP 1997), I was concerned with what happens when you cannot crawl out of the pile at the bottom of the barrel. What happens when you are an outcast in mainstream society because you are black, and you have become, for some reason or another, stigmatised, an outcast in your own society? How do you cope? …I write fiction partly because I feel that if I tried to write the real story, I would fail.” – Alexis Wright at the Tasmanian Readers’ and Writers’ Festival, September 1998.
Condition: Minor shelve wear, otherwise in very good condition.
