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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:

To The Islands (MP3)

Written by:

Randolph Stow 

Read by:

Humphrey Bower 

Format:

Unabridged MP3 CD Audio Book 

Number of CDs:

1 

Duration:

7 hours 13 minutes 

MP3 size:

313 MB 

Published:

November 28 2016 

Available Date:

November 28 2016 

Age Category:

Adult 

ISBN:

9781489357632 

Genres:

Fiction; Australian Fiction; Contemporary Fiction 

Publisher:

Bolinda audio 

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Price

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AUD$ 39.95

AUD$ 39.95

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Western Australian author

Winner AudioFile Earphones Award 2017

‘To the Islands is a deeply moving and compassionate novel whose message and wisdom is still important today, which is why it deserves to be recognised as an important work of Australian literature.’
The Conversation

A Lear-like tale of madness and destruction, published when Randolph Stow was only twenty-two, To the Islands is compelling and wise - a poetic masterpiece.

Behind the uneasy trees rose the hills, and beyond them again the country of the lost, huge wilderness between this last haunt of civilization and the unpeopled sea. Exhausted and losing faith, an Anglican minister flees his mission in Australia’s northwest for the vast emptiness of the outback. In the soul country of the desert the old man searches for the islands of the Aboriginal dead, reflecting on past transgressions and on his life’s work.

‘Powerful and convincing … An Australian classic.’
Anthony J. Hassal