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Nerve and trust.(Journey to the Stone Country)(Book Review)

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| November 01, 2004 | Gould, Alan | COPYRIGHT 2004 Quadrant Magazine Company, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Journey to the Stone Country, by Alex Miller; Allen & Unwin, 2003, $22.95.

I WOULD LIKE to pay tribute to Alex Miller's novel, Journey to the Stone Country, which won the Miles Franklin in 2003. I began it as part of a duty-read and by the time I came to its end recognised that here was a masterpiece. The novel's art lies in the quietness of its telling, in the trust with which it allows the unspoken to be apprehended beside the spoken, like resonation outside the ear's register or the gravitational hold of dark matter on illumined bodies.

There is a novelist's nerve in this trust, and it is evident in the way Miller has allowed the small and habitual ...

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