Tracker
Format:Paperback
Publisher:And Other Stories
Published:7th Jan '25
Should be back in stock very soon
From critically acclaimed and prize winning author Alexis Wright
Winner of the Stella Prize
Winner of the Magarey Medal for Biography
Winner of the Queensland Literary Award
A larger-than-life champion of Aboriginal self-determination, Tracker Tilmouth was whip-smart, irreverent, startling, and deadly serious, famous for rattling the chains of Australian political life wherever he went. One day he asked a novelist-friend for help with his memoirs. Wright agreed, though she knew it would take a whole community to do his life justice. Thousands of interview hours later, the result was Tracker: a groundbreaking piece of creative oral history, a testament to the power of storytelling in contemporary Aboriginal life, and a living monument to a legendary warrior of conscience.
‘A magnificent work of collaborative storytelling.’ The Age (Australia)
‘A magnificent work of collaborative storytelling.’ The Age (Australia)
‘Wright builds, as much as anyone is able to in writing, a detailed portrait of a complex man, whose vision “to sculpt land, country and people into a brilliant future on a grand scale” is inevitably accompanied by an irrepressible humour and suspicion of authority.’ The Guardian
‘Tilmouth was a man who worked through conversation and yarn more than with paper and pen, and this is a book about the place of the story in Indigenous culture and politics as much as it is about Tracker himself.’ The Monthly
‘Wright enacts the complex relationship between self and community that a Western biography could not. There is a cumulative power in the repetitions, backtrackings and digressions the formula necessitates: a sinuous, elegant accommodation of selves. It is a book as epical in form and ambition as the life it describes.’ The Australian
‘Tracker, a book performed by a folk ensemble rather than a solo virtuoso, adds to her enduring non-fiction oeuvre that captures the unique ground-level realpolitik of Aboriginal Australia.’ Australian Book Review
- ‘A unique, majestic biography. It is one man’s story told by many voices, almost operatic in scale . . . The book sings with insight and Tracker’s unique humour.’ Stella Prize citation
- Winner of Magarey Medal for Biography.
- Winner of Queensland Literary Award.
ISBN: 9781916751125
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