Summary
‘A strange, beautiful novel… It represents a deepening of Malouf’s style, offering the reader greater intensity and confirming Malouf’s position as one of the most exciting and uncompromising writers now producing novels in English’ - Colm ToibinThe year is 1827, and in a remote hut on the high plains of New South Wales, two strangers spend the night in talk. One, Carney, an illiterate Irishman, ex-convict and bushranger, is to be hanged at dawn. The other, Adair, also Irish, is an officer of…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099744016 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0099744015 |
| Author: | David Malouf |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Release Date: | 5 September 1997 |
| Weight: | 192g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 17mm |
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The novel opens onto enchanted vistas- memories, dreams, intimations of tenderness and transcendence
The novel opens onto enchanted vistas- memories, dreams, intimations of tenderness and transcendence – Lucy Hughes-Hallett * Sunday Times *A compelling and richly rewarding novel – Helen Dunmore * The Times *Original and impressive – William TrevorExquisite and intriguing – Kate Figes * Elle *
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 and his autobiographical classic 12 Edmondstone Street. His Collected Stories won the 2008 Australia-Asia Literary Award, and his recent story collections are the critically-acclaimed Dream Stuff and Every Move You Make. In 2008 Malouf was the Scottish Arts’ Council Muriel Spark International Fellow. Born in 1934 in Brisbane, where he was brought up, he lives in Sydney.
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