Book by Stow Randolph
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Julian Randolph Mick Stow was born in Geraldton, Western Australia, in 1935. While at university he sent his poems to a British publisher. The resulting collection, Act One, won the Australian Literature Society s Gold Medal in 1957as did the prolific young writer s third novel, To the Islands, the following year. To the Islands also won the 1958 Miles Franklin Literary Award. Stow reworked the novel for a second edition almost twenty-five years later, but never allowed its two predecessors to be republished.
He worked briefly as an anthropologist s assistant in New Guineaan experience that subsequently informed Visitantsthen fell seriously ill and returned to Australia. In the 1960s he lectured at universities in Australia and England, and lived in America on a Harkness fellowship. He published his second collection of verse, Outrider; the novel Tourmaline, on which critical opinion was divided; and his most popular fiction, The Merry-Go-Round in the Sea and Midnite.
In 1969 he settled permanently in England: first in Suffolk, then in Essex, where he moved in 1981. He received the 1979 Patrick White Award.
Randolph Stow died in 2010. He has been hailed as the least visible figure of that great twentieth-century triumvirate of Australian novelists whose other members are Patrick White and Christina Stead .
Drusilla Modjeska was born in London. She spent several years in Papua New Guinea before arriving in Australia in 1971, where she gained a doctorate at the university of NSW. Modjeska's writing often explores the boundaries between fiction and non-fiction. The best known of her work are Poppy (1990), a fictionalized biography of her mother, and Stravinsky's Lunch (2001).
She lives in Sydney.
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When Patrol Officer Alistair Cawdor commits suicide on a small island off New Guinea a colonial inquest is launched. Five witnesses are called to give testimony: the government interpreter, the territory's cadet officer, a planter who claims ownership of the island, one of his servants and the son of the local chief. Each has a disturbing story to tell. Cawdor's secret past will eventually be put together, piece by damning piece. But what of the ominous newcomer Metusela, and the unidentified visitant that has inspired a cargo cult?
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Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. First Edition. NY,Taplinger, 1981 First US Edition, 188 page, psychological thriller set in Paua New Guinea. Written by an anthropolical linguist, the story concerns a death and how it is viewed by the different people that witnessed it. The Book has a remainder mark to bottom age edges, dust soiling top page edges in dust jacket with a tear ot the front panel at the head of the spine, light wear to the spine ends and corners. See photos Amer 31. N° de réf. du vendeur 033324
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