Oyster: A Novel
Books / Paperback
ISBN: 0393319369 / Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, June 1999
Two strangers arrive in an opal mining town in the remote Australian Outback, a place where the rough-hewn bushfolk square off against religious fundamentalists, searching for a stepdaughter and a son who have mysteriously disappeared. Reprint.
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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, Oyster, dressed in white, sexually compelling, and preaching the end of time.
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