Grog War

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Magabala Books, 1997 - Political Science - 268 pages

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Contents

PART TWO BEGINNING THE WAR AGAINST GROG
45
Aborigines contribute millions
55
Stripper outrage
71
Copyright

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About the author (1997)

Alexis Wright is the author of Carpentaria which won a Northern Territory Literary Award in the Essay category 2015. She also won a 2015 Sidney Myer Creative Fellowship worth $160,000 over two years for this same title. She made the finalist for the Melbourne Prize for Literature 2015. Her title The Swan Book made the shortlist for the 2016 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature in the fiction category. Her collective memoir, Tracker (2017), won the 2018 Stella Prize and 2018 Magarey Medal.

Bibliographic information

TitleGrog War
AuthorAlexis Wright
Editionillustrated
PublisherMagabala Books, 1997
Original fromthe University of Michigan
DigitizedMar 23, 2011
ISBN1875641319, 9781875641314
Length268 pages
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