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A Darker Shade of Moonlite - (Queer Oz Folk) by Craig Cormick (Paperback)
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Highlights
- How do you best tell the story of Australia's most enigmatic bushranger - Captain Moonlite?
- Author(s): Craig Cormick
- 118 Pages
- Biography + Autobiography, Criminals & Outlaws
- Series Name: Queer Oz Folk
Description
About the Book
Captain Moonlite, preacher, prison reformer, bushranger, gay. Cormick's playful and inventive biography brings this enigmatic nineteenth century man and his gang to life for modern audiences.
Book Synopsis
How do you best tell the story of Australia's most enigmatic bushranger - Captain Moonlite? The stories he told of his life conflict with the stories told by others, which conflict with the records. A well-educated man, in and out of asylums and prison, who finally found his purpose and his love leading a small gang of young men. Until they followed him into violent chaos.
This book is a creative retelling of history, using many perspectives of fact and time - both yesteryear and today - to try and capture something of Moonlite the man, and the society that made him.
Review Quotes
"This playful amble through the tale of a renowned bushranger is a charming narrative and, better than most bushranger tales, one that is disarming and subtle."
Thomas Keneally, Booker Prize Winner.
"Inventive and playful - an insider's account that will have you on the edge of your seat. Reading Craig Cormick's A Darker Shade of Moonlite is like listening to a story told around a campfire. One of the most enjoyable books you'll ever read."
Professor Mark McKenna, Historian and winner of the Prime Minister's Literary Award
"Playful, irreverent and highly entertaining, in A Darker Shade of Moonlite Cormick gives us a wild tale about a very wild man indeed."
Nigel Featherstone, author of Bodies of Men and My Heart Is a Little Wild Thing.