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Author:

Flanagan, Richard, 1961-

Title:

Wanting / Richard Flanagan.

Edition:

1st American ed.

Publisher:

Distributed by Publisher's Group West,

Copyright Date:

c2008

Description:

256 p. ; 22 cm.

Subject:

Franklin, John,--Sir,--1786-1847--Fiction.
Franklin, Jane Griffin,--Lady,--1792-1875--Fiction.
Dickens, Charles,--1812-1870--Fiction.
Aboriginal Tasmanians--Fiction.
Aboriginal Australians--Fiction.
Children, Aboriginal Australian--Tasmania--Tasmania--Fiction.
Indigenous women--Tasmania--Tasmania--Fiction.
Tasmania--Fiction.

Notes:

"First published in Australia in 2008 by Knopf"--T.p. verso.

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.

ISBN:

080211900X
9780802119001

OCLC:

(OCoLC)262431042

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

MXPG943 -- Fort Dodge Public Library (Fort Dodge)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

GZPE631 -- Pella Public Library (Pella)

WHPE115 -- Storm Lake Public Library (Storm Lake)

GDPF771 -- Urbandale Public Library (Urbandale)