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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:

Tourmaline (MP3)

Written by:

Randolph Stow 

Read by:

Humphrey Bower 

Format:

Unabridged MP3 CD Audio Book 

Number of CDs:

1 

Duration:

8 hours  

MP3 size:

346 MB 

Published:

November 28 2016 

Available Date:

November 28 2016 

Age Category:

Adult 

ISBN:

9781489357595 

Genres:

Fiction; Australian Fiction; Contemporary Fiction 

Publisher:

Bolinda audio 

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AUD$ 39.95

AUD$ 39.95

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Western Australian author

'Intense and extraordinary.’
The Spectator

Both a complex spiritual parable and an enduring apocalyptic vision, Tourmaline is Randolph Stow’s most controversial novel.

Tourmaline, in outback Western Australia, is dying: its mines lie abandoned and drought has taken hold. When the enigmatic young diviner Michael Random emerges from the desert, offering salvation to this parched town, desperate townspeople see him as a messiah. Random begins to spread the word of God – and to promise them water, that most precious resource. The once-comatose community is indeed stirred to life, by hate as much as by love, and its people find salvation neither in water nor gold.