Visitants
Secker & Warburg, 189 pp, $16.90 pb
Fiction
Rich novel breaks long silence
by Anthony J Hassall •
Visitants marks the welcome return of Randolph Stow the novelist. Stow’s last novel, The Merry-Go-Round in the Sea, appeared in 1965, and since then this once prolific writer has been extraordinarily reticent.
The publication of Visitants, the promise of a sequel in the near future, and, coincidentally, his selection for the Patrick White Award for 1979, may point to a decisive break in the long silence which has puzzled and indeed dismayed his admirers.
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Visitants
by Randolph Stow
Secker & Warburg, 189 pp, $16.90 pb
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