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y separately published work icon To the Islands Randolph Stow , London : MacDonald , 1958 Z320065 1958 single work novel (taught in 5 units)

'To the Islands concerns the ordeal of Stephen Heriot, an elderly, careworn, and disillusioned Anglican missionary who abandons his mission when he mistakenly believes he has accidentally killed one of his Aboriginal charges in a not entirely unprovoked confrontation. Heriot flees into the desert not to escape justice but to embrace its desolate beauty and its elemental purity as the one objective reality and the one certainty left available to him.

Heriot's flight and his embrace of the desert may be seen as his attempt, as a European Australian, to immerse himself in the landscape, to make himself one with the land. At this realistic level, the novel enacts the ontological and existential dilemma that confronts most — if not all — European Australians, the dilemma that Professor Hassall [in his introduction to the 2002 UQP Australian Authors version] defines as the continuing quest for psychic integration, for reconciliation with indigenous Australians, and with the land itself.'

Wells-Green, James. [Untitled Review.] JAS Review of Books 15 (May 2003)

Woollahra : Pan Secker and Warburg , 1983
y separately published work icon The Morality of Gentlemen Amanda Lohrey , Chippendale : Alternative Publishing Co-operative , 1984 Z381076 1984 single work novel (taught in 3 units) Sydney : Pan , 1990
y separately published work icon Bitters End David Owen , Chippendale : Pan [Pan Macmillan Australia] , 1993 Z435381 1993 single work novel Chippendale : Pan [Pan Macmillan Australia] , 1993
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