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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     More Content       More by this author     Wright, Alexis, 1950-     Subjects     Women, Aboriginal Australian -- Fiction.     Mutism -- Fiction.     Interpersonal relations -- Fiction.     Australia -- Fiction.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Wright, Alexis, 1950-       by title:      The swan book / Alex...       by call number:      FICTION WRI     Search the Web     Wright, Alexis, 1950-     Women, Aboriginal Australian -- Fiction.     Mutism -- Fiction.     Interpersonal relations -- Fiction.     Australia -- Fiction.       MARC Display

The swan book / Alexis Wright. by Wright, Alexis, 1950- Constable, 2015, c2013. Call #: FICTION WRI Subjects Women, Aboriginal Australian -- Fiction.   Mutism -- Fiction.   Interpersonal relations -- Fiction.   Australia -- Fiction. ISBN:  9781472120557 1472120558 Description:  340 p. ; 25 cm. Notes:  First published: [Artarmon, NSW] : Giramondo Publishing Company, 2013. Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references. Summary:  'The Swan Book' is set in the future, with Aboriginals still living under the Intervention in the north, in an environment fundamentally altered by climate change. It follows the life of a mute teenager called Oblivia from the displaced community where she lives in a hulk, in a swamp filled with rusting boats, and thousands of black swans driven from other parts of the country, to her marriage to Warren Finch, the first Aboriginal president of Australia, and her elevation to the position of First Lady, confined to a tower in a flooded and lawless southern city. Genre:  Dystopian fiction. Alternative histories (Fiction) Science fiction. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Central Library Adult Science Fiction FICTION WRI Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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