- Title:
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The Merry-Go-Round in the Sea
- Written by:
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Randolph Stow
- Read by:
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Humphrey Bower
- Format:
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Unabridged CD Audio Book
- Number of CDs:
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9
- Duration:
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10 hours 24 minutes
- Published:
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September 28 2016
- Available Date:
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September 28 2016
- Age Category:
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Adult
- ISBN:
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9781489359506
- Genres:
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Fiction; Australian Fiction
- Publisher:
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Bolinda audio
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Price
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Western Australian author
Winner AudioFile Earphones Award 2017
‘His novels and poetry embody a uniquely rich and strange account of the land and people of Australia that we can ill afford to lose.’
Australian Book Review
'It is a rare pleasure for those of us who are already fans to have these works at our disposal…[Stow was] the most talented and celebrated Australian author of the post-White generation.’
The Monthly
The Merry-Go-Round in the Sea allows us a precious glimpse into a simpler kind of childhood in a country that no longer exists.
In 1941, Rob Coram is six. The war feels far removed from his world of aunties and cousins and the beautiful, dry landscape of Geraldton in Western Australia. But when his favourite, older cousin, Rick, leaves to join the army, the war takes a step closer.
When Rick returns from the war several years later, he has changed and Rob feels betrayed. The old merry-go-round that represents Rob's dream of utopia (the security of his family and of the land that is his home) begins to disintegrate before his eyes.