the merry go round in the sea by randolph stow

I love getting to know a new, well-written character and it seems Mr Bower's talent is so deep as to bring to life any number of them. I've listened to quite a good few books narrated by Humphrey Bower now and this is another jewel performance. Perhaps it is as a result of finding a worn down brightly coloured copy of it on my parent’s bookshelf. Although set in another part of Australia and in another time to my own, The Merry-Go-Round and The Sea sparked many yearning nostalgias for me, which was a sweet kind of pain well-worth visiting. After reading The Merry Go-Round in the Sea by Randolph Stow I am pleased to say that I have found in it a novel that I feel is both Australian and a Classic. Such is the attentive care of the author. Maybe I don't remember a book that involved the sense of smell as much as vision, and I enjoyed this a lot. I often don't enjoy overly 'descriptive' books but this one danced the line beautifully.

It's as if this book deliberately paints a detailed yet spledidly romantic view of young (white) Australia and too it's ancient bones so the reader can really appreciate the essence of the kinds of nostalgia available to us all, everywhere but particularity here, in glorious - and often inglorious - Australia. The old merry-go-round that represents Rob's dream of utopia (the security of his family and of the land that is his home) begins to disintegrate before his eyes.A beautiful, poetic honouring of Australia. When Rick returns from the war several years later, he has changed and Rob feels betrayed. Full Book Name:The Merry-Go-Round in the Sea. But when his favourite, older cousin, Rick, leaves to join the army, the war takes a step closer. The war feels far removed from his world of aunties and cousins and the beautiful, dry landscape of Geraldton in Western Australia. National characteristics, Australian - Fiction.Set in the fictional town of Tourmaline in outback Western Australia, the novel follows the arrival of Michael Random and the impact he has on the community. Material type: Sound Copyright date: ℗2016 Publisher: Tullamarine, Victoria : Bolinda Audio, Edition: MP3 edition Unabridged Description: 1 MP3 CD (10 hr., 24 min.) : digital, stereo 12 cm in container Content type: The Merry-Go-Round in the Sea Tourmaline (1963) is the fourth novel by Australian writer Randolph Stow. The merry-go-round in the sea / Randolph Stow read by Humphrey Bower.

The merry go round in the sea by randolph stow