Isinglass /

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Author / Creator:Edmond, Martin, author.
Imprint:Crawley, W.A. : UWA Publishing, 2019.
Description:1 online resource (205 pages)
Language:English
Subject:
Painters -- Fiction.
Mute persons -- Fiction.
Alien detention centers -- Fiction.
Australian fiction.
Alien detention centers.
Australian fiction.
Mute persons.
Painters.
Fiction.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12487327
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ISBN:9781760800673
1760800678
9781760800680
1760800686
9781760800116
1760800112
Notes:Print version record.
Summary:He did this amazing wall painting, this mural ... It was a city, a Paul Klee or a Max Ernst city, a city of the mind perhaps, or of antiquity. A dream city. It was a wonderful thing. It took a few days and nights to do, beautiful days and nights. All the other men who lived in the donga watched it come clear. They loved it. And then other men in the camp heard about it too and came to look. An unknown man comes ashore at a remote beach on the New South Wales coast. He is taken into detention and sent, ultimately, to Darwin. His captors call him Thursday after the day upon which he was found. Thursday doesn't speak, but instead paints an enigmatic mural on the wall of his donga in the detention centre. It is a city, a dream city, and when he finishes he says a single word: Isinglass. This latest offering from author Martin Edmond is a beautifully written portrayal of the shameful practices of the Australian gulag archipelago, and a compelling story of a man adrift in an unkind world.
Other form:Print version: Edmond, Martin. Isinglass. Crawley, W.A. : UWA Publishing, 2019 9781760800116

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