Wanting /

Wanting /

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Author / Creator:	Flanagan, Richard, 1961-
Edition:	1st American ed.
Imprint:	New York : Atlantic Monthly Press ; [Berkeley, Calif.] : Distributed by Publishers Group West, c2008.
Description:	256 p. ; 22 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Franklin, John, -- Sir, -- 1786-1847 -- Fiction. Franklin, Jane Griffin, -- Lady, -- 1792-1875 -- Fiction. Dickens, Charles, -- 1812-1870 -- Fiction. Dickens, Charles, -- 1812-1870. Franklin, Jane, -- 1791-1875. Franklin, John, -- 1786-1847. Aboriginal Tasmanians -- Fiction. Aboriginal Australians -- Fiction. Children, Aboriginal Australian -- Australia -- Tasmania -- Fiction. Indigenous women -- Australia -- Tasmania -- Fiction. Aboriginal Australians. Aboriginal Tasmanians. Children, Aboriginal Australian. Indigenous women. Tasmania -- Fiction. Tasmania. Biographical fiction. Fiction. Historical fiction. Novels.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7705015

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ISBN:	9780802119001 080211900X
Summary:	Assuming the governorship of the penal colony of Van Diemen's Land, Sir John Franklin and his wife adopt a young Aboriginal girl, Mathinna, and ten years later after Franklin and his crew disappear in the Arctic, Charles Dickens takes an interest in the story, which has a profound affect on this own life.

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Summary:	One of our most inventive and important international literary voices, Richard Flanagan now delivers Wanting , a powerful and moving tale of colonialism, ambition, and the lusts and longings that make us human.<br> It is 1841. In the remote penal colony of Van Diemen's Land, a barefoot aboriginal girl sits for a portrait in a red silk dress. She is Mathinna, the adopted daughter of the island's governor, Sir John Franklin, and his wife, Lady Jane, and the subject of a grand experiment in civilization--one that will determine whether science, Christianity, and reason can be imposed on savagery, impulse, and desire. Years later, somewhere in the Arctic, Sir John Franklin has disappeared with his crew and two ships on an expedition to find the fabled Northwest Passage. England is horrified by reports of cannibalism filtering 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 life.
Physical Description:	256 p. ; 22 cm.
ISBN:	9780802119001 080211900X