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The Merry-Go-Round In The Sea by Randolph Stow, ISBN 9780143180074

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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.

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.

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9780143180074

Binding:Paperback
Pages:408
Dimensions:198 x 128 mm
Released:01/07/2008

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About the Author: Randolph Stow

Randolph Stow

Randolph Stow (28 November 1935 29 May 2010) was an Australian writer.

Born in Geraldton, Western Australia, Randolph Stow attended Guildford Grammar School and University of Western Australia. He lectured in English Literature at the University of Adelaide, the University of Western Australia and the University of Leeds. He also worked on an Aboriginal mission as an anthropologist, used as background for To the Islands, and as a patrol officer in the Trobriand Islands, where he suffered a severe attack of malaria. He used this experience in Visitants.

For many years he lived in Suffolk in England, his ancestral county, and he used traditional tales from that area as the basis of The Girl Green as Elderflower; the last decades of his life he spent in nearby Harwich.

Because he was a local writer of some standing, a considerable number of Randolph Stow's poems are listed in the State Library of Western Australia online catalogue [1] with indications where they have been anthologised.

He died in England of liver cancer at the age of 74


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