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A First Place

from the award-winning author of Remembering Babylon, Ransom and Johnno

Author: David Malouf  

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A collection of personal essays and writing from David Malouf to celebrate his 80th birthday.

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A collection of personal essays and writing from David Malouf to celebrate his 80th birthday.

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A collection of personal essays and writing from David Malouf to celebrate his 80th birthday.Topography, geography, history.Multiculturalism, referendums, the constitution and national occasions.Parental and grandparental romances, the sensual and bountiful beauty of Brisbane, the mysterious offerings of Queenslander houses, and leaving home.The idea of a nation and the heart of its people.Being Australian and Australia's relationship to the world.Putting ourselves on the map.All these subjects, and more, are explored from the generous, questioning and original perspective of David Malouf.At the heart of these pieces is the idea of home, where and what it is. What they illustrate is the formation of a man, an Australian and one of the best writers this country has produced.----------'A sublime meditation on this country .' DAVID MARR, THE MONTHLY'Malouf is our best living interpreter of place and tradition' ANDREW FUHRMANN, THE SUN-HERALD'Remarkable for its breadth of mind, elegance and wisdom.' PETER CRAVEN, THE AGE'Australia's finest writer' MIRIAM COSIC, THE AUSTRALIAN'Malouf is a lyrical story-writer.' MALCOLM KNOWX, THE SYDNEY MORNING HERALD'A first-rate writer-a sensitive historian of the spirit.' WALL STREET JOURNAL'A richly imagistic writer, philosophical and literary in the best sense.' WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD

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About the Author

David Malouf is the internationally acclaimed author of novels including Ransom, The Great World (winner of the Commonwealth Writers' prize and the Prix Femina Etranger), Remembering Babylon (winner of the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award), An Imaginary Life, Conversations at Curlow Creek, Dream Stuff, Every Move You Make and his autobiographical classic 12 Edmondstone Street. His Collected Stories won the 2008 Australia-Asia Literary Award. His most recent books are A First Place and The Writing Life. He was born in 1934 and was brought up in Brisbane.

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Product Details

Publisher
Random House Australia | Vintage
Published
2nd March 2015
Pages
368
ISBN
9780857984043

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