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Absolutely Revolting
Fiction

A bridge too far

Bridge of Triangles by John Muk Muk Burke

by Adam Shoemaker •
November 1994, no. 166

Bridge of Triangles by John Muk Muk Burke

UQP, $14.95

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This is a fascinating publication. The first book by Wiradjuri author John Muk Muk Burke, Bridge of Triangles, is really free-form short fiction than a novel proper. Novella length, it is episodic, impressionistic, often poetic and open­ended. And, while it has many strengths, this 1993 winner of the David Unaipon Award for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander authors is ultimately a disquieting piece of work.

 


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Bridge of Triangles by John Muk Muk Burke

UQP, $14.95

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