Novel by Richard King
Carrion Colony is a novel by Australian author Richard King, published by Allen & Unwin. A reviewer in The Age called Carrion Colony an "altogether more ambitious work" than King's debut novel, Kindling Does for Firewood, a book which won Australia's Vogel Award in 1995. The reviewer calls Carrion Colony a "...kind of semi-allegorical, post-modernist account of the early days of colonial settlement, written in a highly idiosyncratic, jocularly vulgar style", almost as if it was "Australian history as viewed by Mad magazine." The reviewer states that "ime and place are deliberately confused and conflated" and the prose is "...highly mannered", but with "arse jokes and puns aplenty". The reviewer states that the "...post-modernist element in the novel" can be seen in the "shifting sense of time and place but in the narrator's self-conscious intrusions". The reviewer calls it "willed, cerebral stuff".
References
- ^ Clancy, Laurie (22 September 2002). "The wild colonial ploy". www.theage.com.au. The Age. Retrieved 3 January 2017.