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Wanting (Hardcover, 2008)

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Wanting by Richard Flanagan (Hardcover Book) Historical, Literature, Drama.

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The bestselling, universally lauded novel of desire and its denial from acclaimed writer Richard Flanagan. It is 1839. A young Aboriginal girl, Mathinna, is running through the long wet grass of an island at the end of the world to get help for her dying father, an Aboriginal chieftain. Twenty years later, on an island at the centre of the world, the most famous novelist of the day, Charles Dickens, realises he is about to abandon his wife, risk his name and forever after be altered because of his inability any longer to control his intense passion. Connecting the two events are the most celebrated explorer of the age, Sir John Franklin - then governor of Van Diemen's Land - and his wife, Lady Jane, who adopt Mathinna, seen as one of the last of a dying race, as an experiment. Lady Jane believes the distance between savagery and civilisation is the learned capacity to control wanting. The experiment fails, Sir John disappears into the blue ice of the Arctic seeking the Northwest Passage, and a decade later Lady Jane enlists Dickens's aid to put an end to the scandalous suggestions that Sir John's expedition ended in cannibalism. Dickens becomes ever more entranced in the st

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Random House Australia
ISBN-13
9781741666557
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Wanting
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Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Books
Publication Year
2008
Number of Pages
272 Pages

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219mm
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151mm
Item Weight
476g

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