Visitants (Paperback)
Language: English
Published by Text Publishing, Melbourne, 2015
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Paperback. When Patrol Officer Alistair Cawdor commits suicide on a small island off New Guinea a colonial inquest is launched. Five witnesses are called to give testimony: the government interpreter, the territory's cadet officer, a planter who claims ownership of the island, one of his servants and the son of the local chief.Each has a disturbing story to tell. Cawdor's secret past will eventually be put together, piece by damning piece. But what of the ominous newcomer Metusela, and the unidentified visitant that has inspired a cargo cult?First published in 1979, Randolph Stow's novel Visitants was informed by the author's own time in the Trobriand Islands two decades earlier. It is one of the most potent examinations of Australian colonialism.'A brilliant, ambitious novel.' Sydney Morning Herald'Tautly and vibrantly written, and brilliantly evocative of its Trobriand Islands setting.' Australian Book Review An investigation into a Patrol Officer's suicide in New Guinea leads to revelations about his secret past. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…
Seller Inventory # 9781925240276
- Title
- Visitants (Paperback)
- Author
- Randolph Stow
- Publisher
- Text Publishing, Melbourne
- Publication year
- 2015
- Condition
- new
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1925240274
- ISBN 13
- 9781925240276
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He worked briefly as an anthropologist s assistant in New Guineaan experience that subsequently informed Visitantsthen fell seriously ill and returned to Australia. In the 1960s he lectured at universities in Australia and England, and lived in America on a Harkness fellowship. He published his second collection of verse, Outrider; the novel Tourmaline, on which critical opinion was divided; and his most popular fiction, The Merry-Go-Round in the Sea and Midnite.
In 1969 he settled permanently in England: first in Suffolk, then in Essex, where he moved in 1981. He received the 1979 Patrick White Award.
Randolph Stow died in 2010. He has been hailed as the least visible figure of that great twentieth-century triumvirate of Australian novelists whose other members are Patrick White and Christina Stead .
Drusilla Modjeska was born in London. She spent several years in Papua New Guinea before arriving in Australia in 1971, where she gained a doctorate at the university of NSW. Modjeska's writing often explores the boundaries between fiction and non-fiction. The best known of her work are Poppy (1990), a fictionalized biography of her mother, and Stravinsky's Lunch (2001).
She lives in Sydney.
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