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Issue Details: First known date: 2009... 2009 From : Plains of Promise
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    y separately published work icon Pieces : From Acclaimed Australian Novels Georgina Clementz (editor), Sydney : Phoenix Education , 2009 Z1713939 2009 anthology extract novel

    'Pieces contains extracts selected to appeal to a wide range of readers and interests from 11 highly regarded Australian novels The extracts are intended to introduce students, particularly those for whom reading is not a favourite activity, to a variety of novels. The extracts average 3500 words each and introduce students to the major characters of the novel. Each extract has a brief introduction to put the events and characters in context, and is followed by a synopsis of the novel.


    'The novels are: Maestro by Peter Goldsworthy, Illywhacker by Peter Carey, The Day of the Dog by Archie Weller, After January by Nick Earls, Our Sunshine by Robert Drewe, The Secret River by Kate Grenville, Matilda, My Darling by Nigel Krauth, The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith by Thomas Keneally, The Well by Elizabeth Jolley, Plains of Promise by Alexis Wright and Cloudstreet byTim Winton.' (From the publisher's website.)

         Sydney : Phoenix Education , 2009     pg. 51-62
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y separately published work icon Plains of Promise Alexis Wright , St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 1997 Z104794 1997 single work novel (taught in 23 units)

'In this brilliant debut novel, Alexis Wright evokes city and outback, deepening our understanding of human ambition and failure, and making the timeless heart and soul of this country pulsate on the page. Black and white cultures collide in a thousand ways as Aboriginal spirituality clashes with the complex brutality of colonisation at St Dominic's mission. With her political awareness raised by work with the city-based Aboriginal Coalition, Mary visits the old mission in the northern Gulf country, place of her mother's and grandmother's suffering. Mary's return reignites community anxieties, and the Council of Elders again turn to their spirit world.' (From the publisher's website.)
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