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408 pages • first pub 1996 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780393319361
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Publication date: 17 June 1999
Description
Outer Maroo, a small, opal mining town in the Australian outback, is stewing in heat, drought, and guilty anxiety. Some ghastly cataclysm has occurred on the opal fields, but this is a taboo subject. At the heart of the mystery is the cult messiah...
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408 pages • first pub 1996 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780393319361
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Publication date: 17 June 1999
Description
Outer Maroo, a small, opal mining town in the Australian outback, is stewing in heat, drought, and guilty anxiety. Some ghastly cataclysm has occurred on the opal fields, but this is a taboo subject. At the heart of the mystery is the cult messiah...