The Tall Man : Death And Life On Palm Island

Author: Chloe Hooper

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Price : $15.00 AUD
ISBN : 9780241015377
Publisher : penguin
Imprint : penguin
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Weight (g) : 0.38
Publication date : 31 October 2008
Dimensions : 230mm X mm
Produced in : Australia
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Author : Chloe Hooper
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Dewey classification : 364.349915
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Pages : 288
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2008. First edition, first printing. A very good copy.

Description

In November 2004, in the small township of Palm Island in the far north of Queensland, Detective Hurley arrested Cameron Doomadgee for swearing at him. Doomadgee was drunk. A few hours later he was dead, his liver (according to the inquest) so badly damaged it was almost severed.

Awards

Winner of NSW Premier's Literary Award Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-Fiction 2009. Shortlisted for NSW Premier's Literary Award Gleebooks Award for Cultural & Literary Criticism 2009 and ABIA Australian General Non-fiction Book of the Year 2009.

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