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Hospital, Janette Turner, 1942-
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Missing persons -- Fiction.
Mining districts -- Fiction.
Opal mines and mining -- Fiction.
Australia -- Fiction.
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Hospital, Janette Turner, 1942-
Missing persons -- Fiction.
Mining districts -- Fiction.
Opal mines and mining -- Fiction.
Australia -- Fiction.
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Oyster / Janette Turner Hospital.
by
Hospital, Janette Turner, 1942-
Alfred A. Knopf Canada, c1996.
Call #:
FICTION
HOS
Subjects
Missing persons
--
Fiction
.
Mining
districts
--
Fiction
.
Opal
mines
and
mining
--
Fiction
.
Australia
--
Fiction
.
ISBN:
9780676970319 (trade pbk.)
0676970311 (trade pbk.)
Description:
402 p. ; 25 cm.
Bibliography:
Bibliography: p. 402.
Summary:
Outer Maroo--population 87. Two strangers arrive in this
opal
mining
town in Australia's outback, searching for a son and stepdaughter who have disappeared. The tough, boozing Bush folk live peaceably with Teetotaller fundamentalists, until the arrival of a "foreigner" they call Oyster.
Genre:
Psychological
fiction
.
Social commentary
fiction
.
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Alderney Gate Public Library
Adult Fiction
FICTION HOS
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Jul 12, 2024
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