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Author Grennan, Simon, author, artist.

Title Dispossession : a novel of few words / Simon Grennan ; after John Caldigate by Anthony Trollope ; translation of the Wiradjuri language by Cheryl Riley ; postface by Jan Baetens and Ortwin de Graef
Published London : Jonathan Cape, 2014

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Description 111 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 29 cm
Summary England, 1873. John Caldigate, a young gentleman, gets into debt gambling and decides to try his luck in the gold fields of New South Wales. On the outward journey, he promises to marry Mrs Smith, a divorced actress who is travelling in the same ship. Returning home a rich man, John marries Hester, the sweetheart he left behind. Soon, Mrs Smith also returns from Australia, penniless, and claims that she is already his wife. Inspired by Anthony Trollope's 1879 novel John Caldigate, Dispossession embeds the reader in a uniquely wrought experience of the mid nineteenth century, including the first ever appearance of the Aboriginal Wiradjuri language in a graphic novel. Taking unique advantage of the graphic form to conjure the material world of the Victorian era in a glittering waltz of intense colour and deep shadow, Dispossession is a virtuoso and intensely affecting graphic novel by a master visual storyteller
Analysis Australian
Notes "After John Caldigate by Anthony Trollope"--Title page
"Postface by Jan Baetens and Ortwin de Graef"--Title page
Some captions in parallel English and Wiradjuri
Subject Trollope, Anthony, 1815-1882, author.
Graphic novels.
Gold mines and mining -- Comic books, strips, etc
Historical comics
Wiradjuri (Australian people) -- Comic books, strips, etc
Man-woman relationships -- Great Britain -- 19th century -- Comic books, strips, etc
Wiradjuri (Australian people)
Literature and stories - Non indigenous - Fiction
Race relations - Representation - Literature
Settlement and contacts - Colonisation - 1851-
Mining industry - Gold
Wiradjuri language (D10) (NSW SI55-07)
SUBJECT England -- Comic books, strips, etc
New South Wales -- Comic books, strips, etc
Great Britain -- History -- 19th century -- Comic books, strips, etc
Australia -- History -- 1851-1891 -- Comic books, strips, etc
Subject New South Wales (NSW)
United Kingdom / Great Britain (UK)
Genre/Form Historical fiction
Historical fiction
Historical fiction.
Graphic novels
Graphic novels.
Graphic novels
Graphic novels.
Historical comics.
Author Riley, Cheryl, translator.
Baetens, Jan, writer of added commentary.
Graef, Ortwin de, 1963-, writer of added commentary.
Trollope, Anthony, 1815-1882. John Caldigate
LC no. 2016388276
ISBN 0224102206 (hbk.)
9780224102209 (hbk.)