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That deadman dance Kim Scott

By: Publication details: Sydney : Pan Macmillan, 2011, c2010.Description: 400 p. ; 20 cmISBN:
  • 9780330404235
Subject(s): Awards:
  • Winner of the 2011 Miles Franklin Award, 2012 NSW Premier's Literary Award, 2011 Victorian Premier's Literary Award and 2010 WA Premier's Literary Award.
Summary: Bobby Wabalanginy never learned fear, not until he was pretty well a grown man. Sure, he grew up doing the Dead Man Dance, but with him it was a dance of life, a lively dance for people to do together ... Told through the eyes of black and white, young and old, this is a story about a fledgling Western Australian community in the early 1800s known as the 'friendly frontier'.
List(s) this item appears in: Awarded General Fiction | Award Longlist - Miles Franklin
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Bobby Wabalanginy never learned fear, not until he was pretty well a grown man. Sure, he grew up doing the Dead Man Dance, but with him it was a dance of life, a lively dance for people to do together ... Told through the eyes of black and white, young and old, this is a story about a fledgling Western Australian community in the early 1800s known as the 'friendly frontier'.

Winner of the 2011 Miles Franklin Award, 2012 NSW Premier's Literary Award, 2011 Victorian Premier's Literary Award and 2010 WA Premier's Literary Award.

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