Death Of A River Guide
$24.14
- Paperback
336 pages
- Release Date
16 May 2023
Summary
‘One of the most auspicious debuts in Australian writing.’ - Times Literary Supplement
From the winner of the Man Booker Prize. Death of a River Guide, Richard Flanagan’s debut novel, is widely regarded as a classic in Australian literature.
Beneath a waterfall on the Franklin, Aljaz Cosini, river guide, lies drowning. Beset by visions at once horrible and fabulous, he relives not just his own life but that of his family and forebears. In the rainforest waters that rush over h…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781761048111 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1761048112 |
| Author: | Richard Flanagan |
| Publisher: | Penguin Random House Australia |
| Imprint: | Penguin Random House Australia |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Release Date: | 16 May 2023 |
| Weight: | 251g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 130mm x 26mm |
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About The Author
Richard Flanagan
Richard Flanagan has been described by the Washington Post as ‘one of our greatest living novelists’ and as ‘among the most versatile writers in the English language’ by the New York Review of Books. He won the Commonwealth Prize for Gould’s Book of Fish and the Booker Prize for The Narrow Road to the Deep North. Question 7 was shortlisted for the Prix Femina etranger and the Prix du meilleur livre etranger as a novel, and won the 2024 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction. He is the first and only author to have ever won both the Booker and the Baillie Gifford prizes.
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