Autumn Laing
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—ANDREW RIEMER, Australian Book Review
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—Age
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‘The Tivington Nott abounds in symbols to stir the subconscious. It is a rich study of place, both elegant and urgent.’
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—Somerset County Gazette
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—Canberra Times
ALSO BY ALEX MILLER
Lovesong
Landscape of Farewell
Prochownik’s Dream
Journey to the Stone Country
Conditions of Faith
The Sitters
The Ancestor Game
The Tivington Nott
Watching the Climbers on the Mountain
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Autumn Laing
Copyright © Alex Miller 2011.
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p. 223: The English translation of Rilke’s poem ‘Autumn Day’ is from The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke, edited and translated by Stephen Mitchell, Vintage International Edition, 1989, p. 11.
p. 358: The quotation from Leichhardt’s Journal is from the Corkwood Press facsimile edition of Ludwig Leichhardt’s Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia, 1996, p. 188.
pp. 386–7: The quotation is from Canto 1 of Dante’s Paradiso, translated by John D. Sinclair, revised edition, John Lane, 1948.
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