The Monkey's Mask

The Monkey's Mask
ISBN-10
0330362429
ISBN-13
9780330362429
Category
Australian poetry
Pages
255
Language
English
Published
2000
Publisher
Picador Australia
Author
Dorothy Porter

Description

Reissue of a crime thriller written as a verse novel. First published 1994. Set in a modern urban environment, it has all the elements of murder, deception, passion and betrayal common to the crime genre. Winner of the 1994 'Age' Poetry Book of the Year, the National Book Council for Poetry and the Braille Book of the Year. Previous titles include several collections of poems and other verse novels, 'Akhenaten' and 'What a Piece of Work'.

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