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Shallows is set in a small whaling town in Western Australia, where land-based whaling has been a tradition for over 150 years. When Queenie Cookson decides to join an antiwhaling protest group, she defies her husband, her ancestry, and her community. Winner of the prestigious Miles Franklin Award in Australia, this eloquent and moving novel speaks with immediacy and passion of the conflict between the values of a closeknit, traditional society and the evolving mores of the wider world."The world here, the rainy, closed, quiet, claustrophobic world of the southern beach town just a long stone's throw away from Antarctica, is perfectly evoked. . . . The elegance of language, the grandeur of the nature being described . . . all this is dazzling, dazzling. It makes the heart pound."--Carolyn See, Los Angeles Times Book Review "Animating all 150 years of the settlement's history, [this novel] carries the symbolic weight of its subject matter--of whales and water and meaning of life--as lightly as a wind off the sea. . . . S hallows deserves to find a permanent place as a major work of Australian literature."--Elizabeth Ward, Washington Post Book World
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Shallows
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Allen & Unwin Pty., Limited, 1984
ISBN 10: 0868617938
ISBN 13: 9780868617930
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. xi, 235pp. Light wear to top edge of dust jacket. Otherwise excellent tight clean copy. 9/26 GLC. Seller Inventory # ABE-1790724423995
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Shallows
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ISBN 10: 0868617938
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Winton's second novel and the first to introduce us to the whaling town of Angelus, which would reappear in later novels. Cover illustration by Jenny Lynn. First Edition [George Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1984]; xii, 236 pages; black papered boards, silver titling to spine, spine base bumped, ends rubbed, some spotting top block, name on ffep; an excellent copy; in like illustrated dustjacket, rubbed on edges, tidemark visible verso running 2cm above base; ISBN: 0 86861 793 8 / 0868617938. Seller Inventory # 023625
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Shallows
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ISBN 10: 0868617938
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Seller: Q's Books Hamilton, Hamilton, NSW, Australia
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. This book is covered in neat, clear, removable plastic protecting the dust jacket. The DJ is in very good condition. There is some light wear on the corners. There is a Miles Franklin award sticker on the front cover. The back cover shows some light shelf wear. It is clean and uncreased. The hardcover has some light wear on the corners and over the ends of the spine. Otherwise it is in good condition. The binding is sound. There is some foxing on the page edges, inside the covers and over the end pages. Otherwise the pages are clean, clear and in great condition. Please contact us if you require more photos. Seller Inventory # 029205
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