The inland sea / Madeleine Watts.
Material type: TextPublisher: London, England : One, 2020Description: 252 pages ; 22 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781911590354
- 1911590359
Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Fiction | Davis (Central) Library Fiction Collection | Fiction Collection | WATT | Checked out | 03/04/2024 | T00838881 | |
Fiction | Davis (Central) Library Fiction Collection (New) | Fiction Collection (New) | WATT | Available | T00831233 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
A fierce and beautiful debut novel about our capacity for harming ourselves, each other and the world around us.
In the early 19th century, British explorer John Oxley traversed the then-unknown wilderness of central Australia in search of water. Oxley never found it, but he never ceased to believe it was out there. The myth of the inland sea was taken up by other men, and over the years search parties walked out into the desert, dying as they tried to find it. Two centuries later, his great-great-great-great granddaughter (and our narrator) spends a final year in Sydney reeling from her own self-destructive obsessions. She's working part-time as an emergency dispatch operator, drinking heavily, sleeping with strangers, wandering Sydney's streets late at night, and navigating an affair with an ex-lover. Reckless and adrift, she prepares to leave. Written with down-to-earth lucidity and ethereal breeziness, this is an unforgettable debut about coming of age in a world that seems increasingly hostile. Watts explores feminine fear, apathy and danger, building to a tightly controlled bushfire of ecological and personal crisis.