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Ruby Moonlight
Ruby Moonlight : A Novel of the Impact of Colonisation in Mid-North South Australia Around 1880
Broome
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Magabala Books
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2012
Z1861301
2012
single work
novel
(taught in 2 units)
'A verse novel that centres around the impact of colonisation in mid-north South Australia around 1880. Ruby, refugee of a massacre, shelters in the woods where she befriends an Irishman trapper. The poems convey how fear of discovery is overcome by the need for human contact, which, in a tense unravelling of events, is forcibly challenged by an Aboriginal lawman. The natural world is richly observed and Ruby’s courtship is measured by the turning of the seasons.'
Source: Magabala Books.
Broome : Magabala Books , 2012 pg. 7
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