Bitin' back / Vivienne Cleven ; introduction by Melissa Lucashenko
- Bib ID:
- 10027508
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Cleven, Vivienne, 1968-, author
- Online Access:
- National edeposit: Onsite at National Library of Australia
- Related Online Resources:
- Thumbnail
- Edition:
- First Nations Classics 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, 2024
- ©2001
- 1 online resource.
- File Characteristics:
- text file EPUB 2.9MB
- ISBN:
- 9780702269783
- Series:
- First Nations classics
- Summary:
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"When the Blackouts' star player Nevil Dooley wakes one morning to don a frock and 'eyeshada', his mother's idle days at the bingo hall are gone forever. Mystified and clueless, single parent Mavis takes to bush-cunning and fast footwork to unravel the mystery behind this sudden change of face. Funny and cleverly covert, too, this is a truthful rendering of small town prejudice and racist attitudes. Hilarity prevails while desperation builds in the race to save Nevil from the savage consequences of discovery in a town where a career in footy is a young black man's only escape. Neither pig shoots, bust-ups at the Two Dogs, bare-knuckle sessions in the shed or even a police siege can slow the countdown on this human timebomb." -- Publisher.
- Notes:
- First published 2001 by University of Queensland Press.
- Subject:
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- Aboriginal Australians -- Fiction
- Australian fiction -- Aboriginal Australian authors -- 21st century
- Cities and towns -- Australia -- Fiction
- Gay people -- Australia -- Fiction
- Kamilaroi (Australian people) -- Fiction
- Prejudices -- Australia -- Fiction
- Race relations -- Fiction
- Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander content
- Race relations - Representation - Literature
- Genre/Form:
- Also Titled:
- Biting back
- Copyright:
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- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2021
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