He’s traversed the boundaries of childhood, and suffers pimples and wet dreams and the knowledge that he can never go back to that glorious land that existed before puberty.
He’s six at the beginning of the narrative and thirteen when we leave him. Rob Coram is growing up in Geraldton, Western Australia, during World War II. Time is everything to The Merry Go Round in the Sea. Never metered in hours, time was a function of the excitement of the game, the absorption of the task, the charisma of one’s playmates. The wonderful commonality of all childhoods, good or bad, is the elasticity of time.
Do we remember our innate knowingness, our sixth sense for the sadness of adults? Probably not, at least not all the time, for don’t we adult selves often believe we have hidden our current troubles from our children? We look back in happiness, sorrow, regret, disillusionment but always with the sense of a different, bygone time, never to come again. Semi-autobiographical, yet not a self-portrait, this story of a boy growing up as part of an Australian clan in a small town and the country around it marvellously evokes a sense of the identity of Australia, its history and fate.Childhood, that foreign land. Rob himself began to outgrow the unquestioned beliefs of his family, yet realized with helpless love that much of what he was losing was to him most precious. Rick came back from the war, disillusioned and restless. During the next eight years everything was to change for Rob. The war, remote in place and interest, seemed hardly farther away than Australia–a country Rob had heard of without realizing he lived there.
Geraldton and the sheep stations owned by his numerous relatives formed his world. In 1941, when his admired twenty-year-old cousin Rick left to join the army, Rob Coram was six. You can read this before The Merry-Go-Round in the Sea PDF full Download at the bottom. Here is a quick description and cover image of book The Merry-Go-Round in the Sea written by Randolph Stow which was published in 1988. Brief Summary of Book: The Merry-Go-Round in the Sea by Randolph Stow
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