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Blood and Bone
Blood and Bone
Daniel Davis Wood
Winner of the 2014 Seizure Viva La Novella Prize
With the death of her mother, eleven-year-old Abigail must learn to fend for herself against the cruel stewardship of her father. At war with the local Aboriginals and intent on staking his claim on the land at any cost, what occurs between the two is a stunning powerplay that exposes the limits of the human imagination.
Inhabiting the speculative peripheries of the historical record, Blood and Bone is an uncompromising exploration of Australia’s dark history and its legacy.
Digital ebook
Format: ePub
Pub date: Jun 2014
ISBN: 9781921134227
Physical book
Harper Entertainment Distribution Services
Format: Paperback
Pub date: Jun 2014
Imprint: Seizure
ISBN: 9781922057952
Page extent: 210 pp
Trim: 203 x 127 mm
RRP: AUD$14.99, NZD$17.99
Praise for Blood and Bone by Daniel Davis Wood
‘The climactic event in this story does not occur until the end, when brutal 19th-century Queensland settler Rowan Scrymgeour meets the fate the author has been signalling since the opening. Daniel Davis Wood’s Gothic-tinted family history fulfils two objectives: shedding light on a dark past, and exploring intellectual and aesthetic problems that the writing of such a story might create. [Blood and Bone] is grounded in factual material and Wood has filled the gaps with imagined scenes and conversations, but the tale is made seamless by a tight structure and a hypnotic style that seems to owe something to the work of Gerald Murnane.’ —Kerryn Goldsworthy, The Sydney Morning Herald
