Paradise Earth

Paradise Earth
Amy Barker
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h216 x 140mm - 326pg
29 Mar 2021 AU
9781925856224
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Coming home to Tasman Peninsula, approaching the 25th anniversary of the 1996 Port Arthur massacre, Ruth journeys into psychic trauma. When her brother helps his fourteen-year-old son apply for a firearms permit, they risk repeating the past, forgotten too soon. A Port Arthur massacre survivor, Marina has returned to the Peninsula with her brother to pack up Doo-No-Harm, the family holiday home, after their mother' s death. In a convoy of duck rescuers, the siblings head for a confrontation with shooters on the wetland. These are lives choreographed by trauma, damage and the ramifications of wilful forgetfulness.
' A simple and beautiful tapestry of lives lived in the shadow of the unthinkable violence of the Port Arthur Massacre. . . . Lyrical and provocative. ' - Chris Nyst, Cop This, Gone, Gettin' Square, and Crook as Rookwood. ' A novel of blazing and humbling integrity. ' -Peter Bishop, writers' advocate and formerly Creative Director of Varuna, the Writers' House' A provocative literary novel that highlights the complex relationship between violence and compassion. ' - Mari Carlson, Foreword Clarion Review
Amy Barker holds degrees in English Literature and Creative Writing. Her debut novel Omega Park won the 2008 Queensland Premier' s Literary Award for Best Emerging Author, was shortlisted for the 2010 FAW (Fellowship of Australian Writers) Christina Stead Award for fiction and was Winner of the 2012 IBBY (International Board on Books for Young People) Ena Noel Award. Paradise Earth is Amy' s second novel. It won the 2013 DJ ' Dinny' O' Hearn Memorial Fellowship and for six months she was writer in residence at the Australian Centre, University of Melbourne, where she mentored undergraduate and postgraduate creative writing students. Amy has undertaken residencies at Varuna The National Writers' House, the Tyrone Guthrie Centre for professional artists in Ireland, and most recently, she had a three-month writing stint in a cell at Old Melbourne Gaol, which like Port Arthur, is a Pentonville model prison. Amy lives in Melbourne.
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9781925856224
Published: 29 Mar 2021
Published In: Australia
Imprint: Stormbird Press
Publisher: Stormbird Press
Format: Trade Paperback
Height: 216mm
Width: 140mm
Weight: 440g
Pages: 326

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