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Julian Randolph Mick’ Stow was born in Western Australia, in 1935. His third novel To the Islands won the 1958 Miles Franklin Literary Award. Stow never allowed its two predecessors to be republished. He lived in the US on a Harkness fellowship in the 1960s. Stow died in 2010.
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- PublisherMETHUEN PUBLISHING + LTD
- Publication date1991
- ISBN 10 074939191X
- ISBN 13 9780749391911
- BindingPaperback
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