Journey to the Stone Country by Alex Miller
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 country is not only a remote and exotic location in North Queensland, but is also an unvisited place within each of us. Journey to the Stone Country confirms Miller's reputation as one of Australia's most intelligent and uncompromising writers.
The most impressive and satisfying novel of recent yearsIt 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 resonates for a long time. * Sydney Morning Herald *
A terrific tale of love and redemption that captivates from the first line. -- Nicholas Shakespeare
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 resonates for a long time. * Sydney Morning Herald *
A terrific tale of love and redemption that captivates from the first line. -- Nicholas Shakespeare
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.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781741141467 |
| ISBN 10 | 174114146X |
| Title | Journey to the Stone Country |
| Author | Alex Miller |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Allen & Unwin |
| Year published | 2003-09-01 |
| Number of pages | 372 |
| Prizes | Winner of Miles Franklin Literary Award 2003, Short-listed for Age Book of the Year: Fiction 2003, Short-listed for NSW Premier's Literary Award Christina Stead Prize for Fiction 2003 |
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