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Alexis Wright

Alexis Wright
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Alexis Wright

Alexis Wright is one of Australia's finest writers, a member of the Waanyi nation of the southern highlands of the Gulf of Carpentaria. Her books inlcude Grog War, a study of alcohol abuse in the outback town of Tennant Creek, and the novel Plains of Promise, which was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Prize, the Age Book of the Year Award and the NSW Premier's Award for Fiction, and translated into French as Les Plaines de l'espoir.

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Carpentaria will be released on May 18, 2010 in Trade Paperback
May 18, 2010
Carpentaria is now available in Trade Paperback
May 18, 2010
Carpentaria is now available in Hardcover
Apr 07, 2009
Carpentaria will be released on April 07, 2009 in Hardcover
Apr 07, 2009
Carpentaria is now available in Hardcover
Apr 07, 2009
Excerpt:
Chapter 1 from Carpentaria
Mar 01, 2009
Carpentaria will be released on April 07, 2009 in Hardcover
Dec 19, 2008

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Melbourne Age, April 16, 2013
...Tiffany was considering the books sitting on her desk the other day, works by Christina Stead, Shirley Hazzard, Alexis Wright, Helen Garner and other female Australian writers. And it struck her that without the sentences they had created she would have...
Portsmouth Herald, March 31, 2013
...Jury sees sex video, man paying Alexis Wright $250 - 2/28/2013 By David L. Ulin Los Angeles Times (MCT) March 31, 2013 2:00 AM A Tale for the Time Being Ruth Ozeki Viking (422 pages, $28...
Waterville Morning Sentinel, March 29, 2013
...PORTLAND — The latest chapter in the internationally known Kennebunk prostitution case came to a close Friday as Alexis Wright pleaded guilty to 20 misdemeanors in an agreement with prosecutors, avoiding a trial. click image to enlarge Alexis...
Hampton Union, March 21, 2013
...Kennebunk man wins $1 million in Maine Lottery game - 3/20/2013 Alexis Wright to resume prostitution plea deal talks - 3/20/2013 Police seek suspect who stole diamond ring at Fox Run Mall - 3/20/2013 Medical marijuana bill passed by N.H. House...
Portsmouth Herald, March 7, 2013
...Jury sees sex video, man paying Alexis Wright $250 - 2/28/2013 'Annie' to be the Prescott Park summer musical - 3/6/2013 Man charged with Grinch-like Christmas crime in Rye - 3/6/2013 Snowstorm heading toward Seacoast - 3/6/2013...
York County Coast Star, March 7, 2013
...Jury sees sex video, man paying Alexis Wright $250 - 2/28/2013 'Annie' to be the Prescott Park summer musical - 3/6/2013 Man charged with Grinch-like Christmas crime in Rye - 3/6/2013 Snowstorm heading toward Seacoast - 3/6/2013...
York Weekly, March 6, 2013
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Portsmouth Herald, January 19, 2013
...on that," he said. Strong, an insurance agent from Thomaston, faces 59 misdemeanor charges including conspiring with Alexis Wright, whom authorities say ran a prostitution operation out of her Zumba studio in Kennebunk. He was also charged with...
ABC News, January 18, 2013
...The man accused of bankrolling the Maine Zumba studio, which instructor Alexis Wright allegedly used as a front for a brothel, denied having any involvement or knowledge of the alleged prostitution ring, but said he and Wright had an affair and he...
Seacoast Online, January 18, 2013
...engaging a prostitute have been added to that list. Those men have admitted to using the services of Alexis Wright, 30, of Wells, who prosecutors say conspired with Strong, 57, of Thomaston, to run a prostitution operation for more than a year and a...
NBCNews.com, January 18, 2013
...trial on Tuesday on charges related to the prostitution operation he is accused of running with dance teacher Alexis Wright in her Kennebunk, Maine, Zumba studio, . Strong faces 59 counts of promotion of prostitution and invasion of privacy, while Wright...
NBCNews.com, January 18, 2013
...Rich Beauchesne / Reuters file Alexis Wright 29, of Wells, Maine, is accused of running a prostitution business in Kennebunk. By Vignesh Ramachandran, Staff Writer, NBC News A closed-door plea deal failed Friday for a Maine...
Individual.com, January 18, 2013
...extent of the charges and trial schedule had been public for weeks. Strong is accused of conspiring with Alexis Wright of Wells to run a prostitution business out of her Kennebunk fitness and Zumba studio. Both Strong and Wright, who is facing 106...
York County Coast Star, January 18, 2013
...57, is facing 59 charges of promotion of prostitution and invasion of privacy. Police say he conspired with Alexis Wright, 30, of Wells, to run a prostitution operation out of her Kennebunk Zumba studio for more than a year-and-a-half. Wright is facing...