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Ruby Moonlight : a novel of the impact of colonisation in mid-north South Australia around 1880 / Ali Cobby Eckermann.

Cobby Eckermann, Ali, 1963- (Author).

Summary:

Tells the story of a young Aboriginal woman in the late nineteenth century who survives the massacre of her entire family. Wandering alone through Ngadjuri land, in South Australia, she encounters a luckless Irish trapper whose loneliness matches her own. Drawn together for comfort, they discover a momentary paradise along riverbanks and across arid plains that proves fragile in the face of frontier violence and colonization.

Ruby Moonlight, a novel of the impact of colonisation in mid north South Australia around 1880. The main character, Ruby, refugee of a massacre, shelters in the woods where she befriends an Irishman trapper. The poems convey how fear of discovery is overcome by the need for human contact, which, in a tense unravelling of events, is forcibly challenged by an Aboriginal lawman. The natural world is richly observed and Ruby's courtship is measured by the turning of the seasons.

Record details

ISBN: 9781921248641
ISBN: 1921248645
ISBN: 9781921248665
ISBN: 1921248661
Physical Description: 1 online resource (80 pages)
Publisher: Sydney : Magabala Books, 2012.

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:	Nature; Harmony; Morning; Warning; Ambush; Silence; Shadow; Birds; Ochre; Wander; Dream; Shelter; Wash; Sedge; Gifts; Intrude; Smoke; Bunyip; Shack; Jack; Dark; Hunger; Beast; Food; Friends; Merger; Oasis; Unseen; Solace; Beauty; Tempo; Visitor; Signs; Whispers; Moon; Vision; Murmur; Clouds; Shame; Ritual; Promise; Depart; Spring; Caution; Kuman; Falling; Mud; Green; Fortune; Detour; Loose; Memory; Blur; Shy; Broken; Torn; Hate; Scheme; Muddle; Cave; Instinct; Message; Cursed; Jury; Misread; Spear; Feathers; Empty; Sunset; about the author; ABOUT THE AUTHOR; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.
Language Note:	English.
Awards Note:	Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry, 2013. Deadly Awards, Outstanding Achievement in Literature, 2012.
Source of Description Note:	Print version record.