― Michael Fitzgerald, Time Magazine Wright's is the authentic aboriginal voice. it's her uncanny ear for the particularities of local language and eye for striking symbolism that could carry Carpentaria into the classics sections of bookshelves in years to come. ― Thomas Keneally Wright's gift to Australian literature is Desperance. It will attract and excite readers the world over.

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