The Merry-Go-Round in the Sea (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Randolph Stow
- First Published: 1965
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Bildungsroman
- Time of Work: 1942-1949
- Setting: Geraldton, Western Australia, and its environs
- Genres: Long fiction, Bildungsroman
- Subjects: Maturation or coming of age, Children, Memory, Nature, 1940’s, World War II, Rural or country life, Friendship, Shipwrecks, Boys, Prisoners of war, Australia or Australians
- Locales: Geraldton, Australia
Characters Discussed
Rob Coram, a six-year-old when his cousin Rick, whom he idolizes, is sent from their small town in Western Australia to fight in World War II. Rob is alive to his senses and grows up registering the colors, smells, and sounds of his small town and the differing sensations in the farm life of his grandparents. He learns about sex from young friends and about the war from the newspaper and from the foreign boats and immigrants coming into Geraldton, the harbor town where he lives. His most perplexing experience of war comes from studying his distraught cousin...
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