Wanting by Richard Flanagan
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Wanting by Richard Flanagan

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ISBN: 9781742755120
Shelf No: 2454
Author: Richard Flanagan
Edition: 3rd edition
Publisher: Random House Australia
Place: North Sydney NSW
Year: 2012
Format: Paperback
Volume: 1
Pages: 252 pages
Book Type: SECONDHAND
Cost: 2.00
Period: 19th Century

Book Description

Secondhand. Good condition. General wear to book corners and edges. Pages are sunned. Price sticker on inside page.

Van Diemen’s Land, 1841. Mathinna, the adopted Aboriginal daughter of the island’s governor, Sir John Franklin, and his wife, Lady Jane, sits for her portrait. She is the subject of a grand experiment in civilisation – one that will determine whether science and reason can be imposed in place of savagery and desire.

Years pass. Sir John Franklin disappears on an Arctic expedition to find the fabled Northwest Passage. England is horrified as reports of cannibalism filter back from search parties, no one more so than the most celebrated novelist of the day, Charles Dickens, for whom Franklin’s story becomes a means to plumb the frozen depths of his own soul.

As several lives become entwined, Wanting transforms the classical myth of Leda and the swan into a novel about the ways in which desire – and its denial – shape us all. (publisher blurb)

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