Fly Away Peter
$18.29
- Paperback
160 pages
- Release Date
5 February 1999
Summary
A cast of wildly different characters, united by a love of birds, come together on the coast of Australia in 1914. Their avian idyll is soon disturbed as war rips through Europe, irrevocably changing and challenging their lives.
For three very different people brought together by their love for birds, life on the Queensland coast in 1914 is the timeless and idyllic world of sandpipers, ibises and kingfishers. In another hemisphere, civilization rushes headlong into a brutal conflict. …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099273820 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0099273829 |
| Author: | David Malouf |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 160 |
| Release Date: | 5 February 1999 |
| Weight: | 117g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 9mm |
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Malouf is subtle, lyric and insistent. His stories enter the memory and stay there.
Malouf is subtle, lyric and insistent. His stories enter the memory and stay there. * Irish Times *
Simply brilliant and naturalistically told * Guardian *
The continuities of nature are set against the obscenities of war…to contruct a memorable book * Sunday Telegraph *
The novel of a poet without a single trace of overwriting * Daily Telegraph *
About The Author
David Malouf
David Malouf is the internationally acclaimed author of novels including The Great World (winner of the Commonwealth Writers’ prize and the Prix Femina Etranger), Remembering Babylon (shortlisted for the Booker Prize and winner of the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award), An Imaginary Life, Conversations at Curlow Creek, Dream Stuff (‘These stories are pearls’ Spectator), Every Move You Make (‘Rare and luminous talent’ Guardian), his autobiographical classic 12 Edmondstone Street and Ransom. His Collected Stories won the 2008 Australia-Asia Literary Award. In 2008 Malouf was the Scottish Arts’ Council Muriel Spark International Fellow. He was born in 1934 and was brought up in Brisbane.
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