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Journey to the Stone Country

Alex Miller · 2002 CE · Novel · Australian · Contemporary

Annabelle Beckmann, a middle-aged Melbourne historian whose marriage has ended, returns to the Queensland country where she grew up and meets Bo Rennie, a Jangga man she knew as a child. Together they travel to the stations where his people and her family once worked. Miller's novel reads settler and Aboriginal histories against each other and won the Miles Franklin Award.

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Attributes

Genre
RomanceHistorical
Theme
Exile & HomecomingRace & IdentityColonialismMemory & TimeLoveAtonement
Archetype (Jung / Campbell)
WandererAlly / Companion
Plot type
Exile and ReturnVoyage and Return
Symbol / motif
The JourneyThe WildernessThe Estate
Conflict
vs Societyvs Self
Mode / tone
RealistElegiac
Culture / tradition
Australian

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