{"product_id":"to-the-islands-text-classics","title":"To the Islands: Text Classics","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe powerfully haunting and beautiful tale of an aged missionary on his destructive path towards death, with a new introduction from Bernadette Brennan.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExhausted and losing faith, Anglican minister Stephen Heriot abandons  his mission in Australia's northwest. Wracked with guilt for his past  transgressions, Heriot flees to the vast emptiness of the outback,  searching for the islands of the Aboriginal dead. In the soul country of  the desert he begins to reflect: was his life's work worthwhile? Are  history's crimes also our own? Can any connection to be found in the  unrelenting isolation of the land?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e A \u003ci\u003eLear\u003c\/i\u003e-like tale of madness and destruction, \u003ci\u003eTo the Islands\u003c\/i\u003e was heralded for its poetic mastery upon its publication, when Stow was  only twenty-two. It went on to win the Miles Franklin Literary Award  and the ALS Gold Medal. Stow substantially revised the novel for its  republication in 1982.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   '\u003ci\u003eTo the Islands\u003c\/i\u003e is a deeply moving and compassionate novel whose  message and wisdom is still important today, which is why it deserves to  be recognised as an important work of Australian literature.'\u003ci\u003e Conversation\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e '\u003ci\u003eTo the Islands\u003c\/i\u003e is a masterpiece.' \u003ci\u003eANZ LitLovers\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e'Powerful and convincing...An Australian classic.' Anthony J. Hassal","brand":"Randolph Stow","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43516765274173,"sku":null,"price":14.2,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0597\/7689\/2989\/files\/9781925240290.jpg?v=1787572463","url":"https:\/\/www.palmleaf.com.au\/products\/to-the-islands-text-classics","provider":"Palmleaf","version":"1.0","type":"link"}