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Tourmaline

By: Randolph Stow
Narrated by: Humphrey Bower
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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 in neither water nor gold.

©1963, 2015 Randolph Stow; introduction: Gabrielle Carey (P)2016 Bolinda Classics Fiction Genre Fiction Historical Fiction Literary Fiction Psychological World Literature
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There is so much in this story, layers that you'll explore, with prose at the heart and beautiful narration.

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Stow”s favourite novel and I wish I’d read it earlier. Very poetic and infused with an Australian settler aesthetic. Poignant dimension of water scarcity and environmental decay.

Timeless Australian classic.

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