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Wanting
By Flanagan, Richard
- ISBN
- 978-0-80211-900-1
- Publisher
- New York, NY : Atlantic Monthly Press, c2008.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on March 15, 2009
The latest novel from acclaimed Australian author Flanagan (Gould's Book of Fish; The Unknown Terrorist) is a meditation on the power of desire to transform lives. In an isolated Australian penal colony in the 1840s, an Aboriginal girl named Mathinna is adopted by the English governor, celebrated Arctic explorer Sir John Franklin, and his wife, Lady Jane. Devastated by her inability to bear a child, Lady Jane longs to coddle...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
