The Hunter

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Penguin Books, 1999 - Fiction - 170 pages
An unnamed man, M, arrives at a remote house on the fringe of a vast wilderness and soon disappears into a world of silence and stillness. His one mission- to find the last thylacine, the fabled Tasmanian tiger. She is said to have passed into myth but a sighting has been reported...
Uncompromising and compelling, Julia Leigh's stunning first novel does not give up any of its secrets easily. The Hunteris a haunting tale of obsession that builds to an unforgettable conclusion.

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Section 1
6
Section 2
9
Section 3
39
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About the author (1999)

Julia Leigh was born in 1970 in Sydney, Australia. She is a graduate of the University of Sydney in philosophy and law. She was admitted to the NSW Supreme Court as a Legal Practitioner and worked as a legal advisor at the Australian Society of Authors. In 2009 she earned a PhD in English from the University of Adelaide and served as Adjunct Associate Professor of English at Barnard College, Columbia University. She is the author of The Hunter (made in to a feature film in 2011) and Disquiet. Also in 2011 she wrote and directed the film Sleeping Beauty. Her memoir Avalanche was released in 2016.

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