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Title
Wanting / Richard Flanagan.
Author
Edition
1st American ed.
ISBN
9780802119001
080211900X
080211900X
Publication Details
New York, NY : Atlantic Monthly Press, c2008.
Language
English
Description
256 p. ; 22 cm.
Call Number
PR9619.3.F525 W36 2008b
Dewey Decimal Classification
823/.914
Summary
Assuming the governorship of the penal colony of Van Diemen's Land, Sir John Franklin and his wife adopt a young Aboriginal girl, Mathinna, and ten years later after Franklin and his crew disappear in the Arctic, Charles Dickens takes an interest in the story, which has a profound affect on this own life.
Note
Originally published in Australia in 2008 by Knopf.
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