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Randolph Stow

Randolph Stow, in full Julian Randolph Stow, Australian novelist and poet noted for his economical style and great powers of description. Stow’s first novel, A Haunted Land (1956), a wild, almost Gothic tale, appeared in the same year that he graduated from the University of Western Australia. Among Stow’s books of poetry are Act One (1957), Outrider (1962), and A Counterfeit Silence (1969). He also published Poetry from Australia (1969) with Judith Wright and William Hart-Smith.

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Title:: Visitants (MP3)
Written by:: Randolph Stow
Read by:: Humphrey Bower
Format:: Unabridged MP3 CD Audio Book
Number of CDs:: 1
Duration:: 8 hours 35 minutes
MP3 size:: 374 MB
Published:: November 28 2016
Available Date:: November 28 2016
Age Category:: Adult
ISBN:: 9781489357670
Genres:: Fiction; Australian Fiction; Contemporary Fiction
Publisher:: Bolinda audio

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Informed by Randolph Stow’s experiences, Visitants is an original, astonishing investigation of colonialism.

I want to die. I do not want to be mad … It is like my body is a house, and some visitor has come, and attacked the person who lived there. After an Australian patrol officer commits suicide on a remote New Guinea island in 1959, five witnesses are called to a government inquiry. Each has a disturbing story to tell: strand by strand, the mystery of the officer’s past is unravelled. But what of other visitants, like the unidentified flying object and the cargo cult it has inspired on the island?