Ruby Moonlight : a novel of the impact of colonisation in mid-north South Australia around 1880 / Ali Cobby Eckermann.

By:

Cobby Eckermann, Ali, 1963-

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Sydney : Magabala Books, 2012.Description: 1 online resource (80 pages)Content type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9781921248641
1921248645
9781921248665
1921248661

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Ruby Moonlight.DDC classification:

821.92 23

LOC classification:

PR9619.4.C63 R83 2012eb

Online resources:

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Contents:

Nature; Harmony; Morning; Warning; Ambush; Silence; Shadow; Birds; Ochre; Wander; Dream; Shelter; Wash; Sedge; Gifts; Intrude; Smoke; Bunyip; Shack; Jack; Dark; Hunger; Beast; Food; Friends; Merger; Oasis; Unseen; Solace; Beauty; Tempo; Visitor; Signs; Whispers; Moon; Vision; Murmur; Clouds; Shame; Ritual; Promise; Depart; Spring; Caution; Kuman; Falling; Mud; Green; Fortune; Detour; Loose; Memory; Blur; Shy; Broken; Torn; Hate; Scheme; Muddle; Cave; Instinct; Message; Cursed; Jury; Misread; Spear; Feathers; Empty; Sunset; about the author; ABOUT THE AUTHOR; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.

Awards:

Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry, 2013.
Deadly Awards, Outstanding Achievement in Literature, 2012.

Summary: Tells the story of a young Aboriginal woman in the late nineteenth century who survives the massacre of her entire family. Wandering alone through Ngadjuri land, in South Australia, she encounters a luckless Irish trapper whose loneliness matches her own. Drawn together for comfort, they discover a momentary paradise along riverbanks and across arid plains that proves fragile in the face of frontier violence and colonization.Summary: Ruby Moonlight, a novel of the impact of colonisation in mid north South Australia around 1880. The main character, Ruby, refugee of a massacre, shelters in the woods where she befriends an Irishman trapper. The poems convey how fear of discovery is overcome by the need for human contact, which, in a tense unravelling of events, is forcibly challenged by an Aboriginal lawman. The natural world is richly observed and Ruby's courtship is measured by the turning of the seasons.

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Tells the story of a young Aboriginal woman in the late nineteenth century who survives the massacre of her entire family. Wandering alone through Ngadjuri land, in South Australia, she encounters a luckless Irish trapper whose loneliness matches her own. Drawn together for comfort, they discover a momentary paradise along riverbanks and across arid plains that proves fragile in the face of frontier violence and colonization.

Ruby Moonlight, a novel of the impact of colonisation in mid north South Australia around 1880. The main character, Ruby, refugee of a massacre, shelters in the woods where she befriends an Irishman trapper. The poems convey how fear of discovery is overcome by the need for human contact, which, in a tense unravelling of events, is forcibly challenged by an Aboriginal lawman. The natural world is richly observed and Ruby's courtship is measured by the turning of the seasons.

Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry, 2013.

Deadly Awards, Outstanding Achievement in Literature, 2012.

English.

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