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Stanton Laird is sent from a small town in Oregon to drill for oil in Western Australia. He finds that a million-acre sheep station is almost beyond his comprehension, but he meets and falls in love with Mollie. When they return to America, the small town has become very small indeed.
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"The novel fascinates in its record of the hazards and joys shared by a rich and rewarding company of personalities" (Scotsman)
"The best novel its author has written for some time...his characters...are carved out with fine bold strokes, and the red dust of his million-acre ranch fairly gets in your throat" (Daily Telegraph)
"That shattering, unaffected, literary style of his is wholly deceptive...is, in fact, masterly" (H.E. Bates)
"A brilliantly descriptive writer, a master of suspense" (David Holloway)
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"The best novel its author has written for some time...his characters...are carved out with fine bold strokes, and the red dust of his million-acre ranch fairly gets in your throat" (Daily Telegraph)
"That shattering, unaffected, literary style of his is wholly deceptive...is, in fact, masterly" (H.E. Bates)
"A brilliantly descriptive writer, a master of suspense" (David Holloway)
A classic adventure from the author of A Town Like Alice and On the Beach.
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- PublisherBallantine Books
- Publication date1966
- ISBN 10 0345250850
- ISBN 13 9780345250858
- BindingUnbound
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: Good. 1st Edition Thus. This is a mass market paperback book. The book is in Good condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The book covers have several small edge nicks and tears to the spine ends. There is an inked scribble to the top spine of the book cover and there is some light toning to the cover edges. The text pages are clean and bright. There is a previous owner's inked name on the inside front cover. "The story concerns a young American geologist, Stanton Laird, working in the Australian outback in the field of oil exploration. Although he is in a very remote location - beyond the black stump - in a region called "the Lunatic" in Western Australia, he is part of a crew that has a well-appointed mobile facility. He is befriended by a local farming family, the Regans, and develops a relationship with their daughter Mollie. The Regans run an enormously profitable station, but their domestic lifestyle is, to say the least, unconventional, with the two Regan brothers at one time having Mollie's mother move from one to the other without bothering to get a divorce. The family is large, and even larger when counting the half-caste children produced by both fathers, and the children are taught by the Judge, an English exile and alcoholic, who gives the children an excellent education and keeps the finances of the station properly accounted for. " (from Wikipedia). Seller Inventory # A40371
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