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Liked It Rated 4 stars “In Oyster, Janette Turner Hospital writes of Outer Maroo, a fictional town near Queensland, Australia. Kept off official maps by luck, secrecy and it's sheer remoteness, the town plods along in the dustbowl heat of the Outback until, one day, a stranger stumbles out of the desert. His...” see full review » see other reviews »

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  “In Oyster, Janette Turner Hospital writes of Outer Maroo, a fictional town near Queensland, Australia. Kept off official maps by luck, secrecy and it's sheer remoteness, the town plods along in the dustbowl heat of the Outback until, one day, a stranger stumbles out of the desert. His name is Oyster and he carries three opals.
  
  Before long, Oyster has set up a religious commune nearby, where he puts his mostly college aged adherents to work mining opal and bearing his children. The inhabitants of Outer Maroo turn a blind eye to the fact that Oyster, in the great tradition of cult leaders everywhere, has cut his followers off from their families -- no phones, no mail, no nothing.
  
  And then it explodes, as is fitting for an apocolyptic cult inthe year 2000.
  
  Hospital is a wonderful writer, and the story, althoguh horrifying and dreadful, is woven from language that is simply beautiful, both lyrical and haunting.”

  Dame Daisy Barksby-Pryce wrote this review Friday, August 1, 2008. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No