First published 1998 by University of Queensland Press

PO Box 6042, St Lucia, Queensland 4067 Australia

www.uqp.com.au

© Steven McCarthy, 1998

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Cataloguing-in-Publication Data

National Library of Australia

McCarthy, Steven, 1960–.

Black angels, red blood.

I. Title. (Series: UQP black Australian writers).

A823.3

ISBN 978 0 7022 2963 3 (pbk)

978 0 7022 5031 6 (pdf)

978 0 7022 5032 3 (epub)

978 0 7022 5033 0 (kindle)