Winner in 1984 of Australia's prestigious Miles Franklin Award, this is a largely conventional novel about modern-day whaling and the barbarities thereof, interspliced with the story of commercial finaglings in a small town, and with the saga of a tormented family. Brutal, and serving an outmoded market, the whaling industry nevertheless relentlessly continues as economic mainstay of the seen-better-days town of Angelus on Australia's western coast
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