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USC Aiken hosts readings from Oyster author Janette Turner Hospital
Janette Turner Hospital discusses her novel Oyster during a Writers Series lecture at Etherredge Center. The Australian Australian writer, now based near Columbia, explores a small opal mining town Outer Maroo and a messianic figure who mirrors the Waco disaster while the book earned finalist status for Australia’s Miles Franklin and the National Book Award and was listed among Best Books of the Year in England.
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