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.
General Information
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- : Pan Macmillan Australia Pty, Limited
- : Picador
- : 0.695
- : 01 September 2010
- : Australia
- : books
Other Specifications
- : Kim Scott
- : Hardback
- : 1010
- : English
- : 406
More About The Product
Shortlisted for Miles Franklin Literary Award 2011.
Kim Scott's ancestral Noongar country is the south-east coast of Western Australia between Gairdner River and Cape Arid. He is the author of two novels, True Country and Benang, poetry and numerous pieces of short fiction.