Publication

1994 - University of Queensland Press, St. Lucia, Qld., Australia

Language

English

Word Count

35,000 words, Guess

Page Count

140 pages

Identifiers

  • Open LibraryOL1221216M
  • ISBN-100702226394
  • OCLC Control Number33361608
  • Library of Congress Control Number94220359
  • Goodreads3486232
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  • LibraryThing1638133

Classifications

  • DDC[Fic]
  • LCCPZ7.B9194 Br 1994

Description

"Chris Leeton is tormented but also sustained by his growing need to cross over into the landscape of his aboriginal ancestors. After the night of the flood, his Wiradjuri mother resolves to take her four children away from their riverbank home and her unhappy life with Chris's white father. In the struggle to keep the family together in Sydney's grim commission housing, schoolboy Chris is tender witness to poverty and despair. In time he comes to understand that they are exiles in their own land. He senses that it is his generation which must cross the bridge back to that landscape which defines his people's existence."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects

Genres

  • Fiction.
  • Juvenile fiction.

Series Statement

  • UQP Black Australian writers

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