That Deadman Dance: Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 2011
Author(s): Kim Scott
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.
General Fields
- :
- : Pan Macmillan Australia Pty, Limited
- : Picador
- : 31 December 2010
- : books
Special Fields
- : Kim Scott
- : 408