That Deadman Dance: Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 2011

Author(s): Kim Scott

General

Bobby Wabalanginy never learned fear, not until he was pretty well a grown man. Sure, he grew up doing the Dead Man Dance - those stiff movements, those jerking limbs - as if he'd learned it from their very own selves; 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, That Deadman Dance is a story about a fledgling Western Australian community in the early 1800s known as the 'friendly frontier'. Poetic, warm-hearted and bold, it is a story which shows that first contact did not have to lead to war. It is a story for our times.


Product Information

Winner

 

of Commonwealth Writers' Prize Best Book - SE Asia and South Pacific 2011 and

 

Miles Franklin Literary Award 2011.

Born in 1947, Kim Scott's ancestral Noongar country is the south-east coast of Western Australia between Gairdner River and Cape Arid. His cultural Elders use the term Wirlomin to refer to their clan, and the Norman Tindale nomenclature identifies people of this area as Wudjari/Koreng. Kim's professional background is in education and the arts. He is the author of two novels, True Country and Benang, poetry and numerous pieces of short fiction.

General Fields

  • : 9780330404235
  • : Pan Macmillan Australia Pty, Limited
  • : Picador
  • : 0.35
  • : January 2011
  • : 198mm X 128mm X 28mm
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Kim Scott
  • : Paperback
  • : 1106
  • : English
  • : 823/.914
  • : very good
  • : 408
  • : FV