Swallow the Air / Tara June Winch
- Bib ID:
- 8549752
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Winch, Tara June, author
- Online Access:
- National edeposit: Onsite at National Library of Australia
- Related Online Resources:
- Thumbnail
- Edition:
- Paperback edition.
- Access Conditions:
- National edeposit: Available onsite at the National Library of Australia, State Library of Queensland
- Description:
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- St Lucia, Queensland : University of Queensland Press, 2021
- ©2021
- 1 online resource.
- ISBN:
- 9780702250569 (EPUB)
- Summary:
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When May's mother dies suddenly, she and her brother Billy are taken in by an aunt. However their loss leaves them both searching for their place in a world that doesn't want them. May sets off to find her father and her Aboriginal identity.
- Full contents:
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- Swallow the air
- Grab
- Cloudbusting
- My bleeding palm
- Bushfire
- Leaving paradise
- To run
- Territory
- The block
- Chocolate
- Wantok
- Painted dreaming
- Mapping waterglass
- Just dust
- Cocoon
- Bila snake
- Mission
- Country
- The jacaranda tree
- Home.
- Notes:
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- Qld Premier's Literary Awards.
- Winner of the David Unaipon Award.
- In English.
- Awards:
- Winner of the David Unaipon Award.
- Subject:
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- Aboriginal Australian -- Fiction
- Australian fiction -- Aboriginal Australian authors
- Australian fiction -- 20th century
- Bereavement -- Fiction
- Brothers and sisters -- Australia -- Fiction
- Children, Aboriginal Australian -- Fiction
- Families -- Fiction
- Identity (Psychology) -- Fiction
- Mothers -- Death -- Fiction
- Orphans -- Australia -- Fiction
- Siblings -- Australia -- Fiction
- Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander content
- Literature and stories - Fiction
- Social identity - Aboriginality
- Copyright:
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Copyright status was determined using the following information:
- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2021
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