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Mick : a life of Randolph Stow

Suzanne Falkiner (Author)
Randolph Stow was one of the great Australian writers of his generation. His novel To the Islands -- written in his early twenties after living on a remote Aboriginal mission -- won the Miles Franklin Award for 1958. In later life, after publishing seven remarkable novels and several collections of poetry, Stow's literary output slowed. This biography examines the productive period as well as his long periods of publishing silence. In Mick: A Life of Randolph Stow, Suzanne Falkiner unravels the reasons behind Randolph Stow's quiet retreat from Australia and the wider literary world. Meticulousl

eBook, English, 2016
UWA Publishing, Crawley, Western Australia, 2016