ISBN: 0702233110

Tourmaline is an isolated Western Australian mining town - a place of heat and dust, as allegorical as it is real. Out of the desert staggers a young diviner, Michael Random, offering sal… More...

Tourmaline is an isolated Western Australian mining town - a place of heat and dust, as allegorical as it is real. Out of the desert staggers a young diviner, Michael Random, offering salvation to this parched town. 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. 'With its richly textured sense of place, and its story hovering like a desert mirage between the real and the surreal, Tourmaline is Stow's most profound meditation on the confused spiritual heritage of Europeans living in Australia. Tourmaline is the ship of the Australian soul, isolated in an inland desert, and Stow has explored it with a visionary intensity more common in the Russian than in the Australian or the English novel But the spare, arid, harsh and yet living desert is unmistakably Australian, and the narrative it contains compels by its very strangeness and the stark truth of its insight.' - Anthony J. Hasasll 'Stow's is an intense and extraordinary talent.' - Spectator contemporary,fiction,history,history and criticism,literature and fiction,movements and periods,politics and social sciences,religion,religion and spirituality,social sciences Religion & Spirituality, University of Queensland Press<

ISBN: 0702233110

Tourmaline is an isolated Western Australian mining town - a place of heat and dust, as allegorical as it is real. Out of the desert staggers a young diviner, Michael Random, offering sal… More...

Tourmaline is an isolated Western Australian mining town - a place of heat and dust, as allegorical as it is real. Out of the desert staggers a young diviner, Michael Random, offering salvation to this parched town. 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. 'With its richly textured sense of place, and its story hovering like a desert mirage between the real and the surreal, Tourmaline is Stow's most profound meditation on the confused spiritual heritage of Europeans living in Australia. Tourmaline is the ship of the Australian soul, isolated in an inland desert, and Stow has explored it with a visionary intensity more common in the Russian than in the Australian or the English novel But the spare, arid, harsh and yet living desert is unmistakably Australian, and the narrative it contains compels by its very strangeness and the stark truth of its insight.' - Anthony J. Hasasll 'Stow's is an intense and extraordinary talent.' - Spectator contemporary,history and criticism,literature and fiction,movements and periods,politics and social sciences,religion,religion and spirituality,social sciences Religion & Spirituality, University of Queensland Press<

ISBN: 0702233110

[SR: 3804633], Paperback, [EAN: 9780702233111], Univ of Queensland Pr, English, English, English, Univ of Queensland Pr, Book, Univ of Queensland Pr, Univ of Queensland Pr, 276522, Sociol… More...

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1979, ISBN: 0702233110

First published in Britain in 1963, this novel is set in a remote Western Australian town. The arrival of the protagonist not only changes the town, but indelibly alters him in the proces… More...

First published in Britain in 1963, this novel is set in a remote Western Australian town. The arrival of the protagonist not only changes the town, but indelibly alters him in the process. This edition includes a new foreword by Anthony J. Hassall, author of a critical study of Stow's literature, 'Strange Country'. Author was awarded the 1979 Patrick White Award. His other publications include 'Tourmaline' and 'To The Islands, winner of the 1958 Miles Franklin Award. contemporary,fiction,history,history and criticism,literature and fiction,movements and periods,politics and social sciences,social sciences Politics & Social Sciences, University of Queensland Press<