The Styx. Patricia Holland

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Название The Styx
Автор произведения Patricia Holland
Жанр Классическая проза
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isbn 9781922198310



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      The Styx

      Patricia Holland

      [Lacuna]

      2017

      Foreword

      A movingly-great read! A great story teller. After reading the first chapter I found myself laughing along with the main character’s wonderfully silent sense of humour which comes through easily and naturally. I loved her powerfully hungry take on life and the environment.

      Aboriginal Australians and Torres Strait Islander people need to be represented by more voices in fiction. I know children in similar situations who have hardly had a whisper of life, let alone a voice.

      In this wonderfully drawn protagonist, the author’s unique style caused this sardonic Murri to read the entire book in a sitting. I cheered for both the author and the resilient, eccentric character who will live long in both heart and memory.

      John Wenitong (Pemulwuy Weeatunga)

      Publishing information

      The Styx is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, institutions, places, events and incidents are either the products of the author’s imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental, or as stated in the Acknowledgements.

      Published in 2017 by Lacuna in Armidale, New South Wales, Australia

       www.lacunapublishing.com

      Lacuna is an imprint of Golden Orb Creative

      PO Box 428, Armidale, NSW 2350, Australia

       www.goldenorbcreative.com

      © Copyright Patricia Holland 2017

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrievals system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, scanning or otherwise, except under the terms of the Australian Copyright Act 1968, without the permission of the publisher.

      All enquiries to the publisher: [email protected]

      Cover design by Golden Orb Creative

      Cover image “Muscinae” from Ernst Haeckel’s Art Forms of Nature (1904)

      Author photograph © Glenn Adamus

      Print design and ebook production by Golden Orb Creative

      A National Library of Australia Cataloguing-in-Publication entry has been created for this title.

      ISBN 9781922198303 (pbk)

      ISBN 9781922198310 (ebook)

      Contents

       Foreword

       Shadows of the Wuku

       Prologue

      Part I: Disempowered — 1990s

       Chapter 1

       Chapter 2

       Chapter 3

       Chapter 4

       Chapter 5

       Chapter 6

       Chapter 7

      Part II: Empowerment — 2001–2004

       Chapter 8

      Chapter 9

       Chapter 10

       Chapter 11

       Chapter 12

       Chapter 13

       Chapter 14

       Chapter 15

       Chapter 16

       Chapter 17

       Chapter 18

       Chapter 19

       Chapter 20

       Chapter 21

       Chapter 22

       Chapter 23

       Chapter 24

       Chapter 25

       Chapter 26

       Chapter 27

       Chapter 28

       Chapter 29

      Part III: Power Wars — 2004

       Chapter 30

       Chapter 31

       Chapter 32

       Chapter 33

       Chapter 34

      Part IV: Surrender — 2014–2016

       Chapter 35

       Chapter