Journey to the Stone Country
Alex Miller
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Description for Journey to the Stone Country
Paperback. A superbly compelling work of betrayals, compassion, secrets and reconciliation. Num Pages: 372 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 189 x 139 x 29. Weight in Grams: 332. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
Betrayed by her husband, Annabelle Beck retreats from Melbourne to her old family home in tropical North Queensland where she meets Bo Rennie, one of the Jangga tribe. Intrigued by Bo's claim that he holds the key to her future, Annabelle sets out with him on a path of recovery that leads back to her childhood and into the Jangga's ancient heartland, where their grandparents' lives begin to yield secrets that will challenge the possibility of their happiness together.
With the consummate artistry of a novelist working at the height of his powers, Miller convinces us that the stone ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Allen & Unwin
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of Pages
372
Place of Publication
St Leonards, Australia
ISBN
9781741141467
SKU
KAC0001579
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About Alex Miller
Alex Miller has twice won the prestigious Miles Franklin Literary Award, Australia's premier literary prize; the first occasion in 1993 for The Ancestor Game, and again in 2003 for Journey to the Stone Country. He is also an overall winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, for The Ancestor Game, in 1993. British by birth, he now lives in Victoria.
Reviews for Journey to the Stone Country
The most impressive and satisfying novel of recent years. It gave me all the kinds of pleasure a reader can hope for.
Tim Winton Miller's fiction has a mystifying power that is always far more than the sum of its parts... his footsteps - softly, deftly, steadily - take you places you may not have been, and their sound ... Read more
Tim Winton Miller's fiction has a mystifying power that is always far more than the sum of its parts... his footsteps - softly, deftly, steadily - take you places you may not have been, and their sound ... Read more