![]() The novel opens 16 years later at the moment when the new white settlers in the region are suddenly confronted by this far from settling phenomenon - an in- between creature, 'a black white-feller', who seems a fleshing-out of their unspoken fears. ![]() In the mid-1840s, Gemmy Fairley, then a 13-year-old ship's boy from a disturbed background, was cast ashore in the far north of Australia, where he was taken in by the Aborigines. I am a B-b-british object]' After all that he has been subject to, though, David Malouf's strange hero might well be excused the odd verbal slip. ![]() THIS NOVEL breaks into speech with a stammered Malapropism: 'Do not shoot. ![]()
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