A young man going off to war tries to make sense of his place in the world he is leaving; a composer's life plays itself out as a complex domestic cantata; an accident on a hunting trip speaks volumes, which its inarticulate victim never could; and a down-to-earth woman stubbornly tries to keep her feet on the ground at Ayers Rock. Malouf's men and women are together but curiously alone, looking for something they seem to have missed, or missed out on, in life. Powerfully rooted in the heat and the dust of the vast ...
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A young man going off to war tries to make sense of his place in the world he is leaving; a composer's life plays itself out as a complex domestic cantata; an accident on a hunting trip speaks volumes, which its inarticulate victim never could; and a down-to-earth woman stubbornly tries to keep her feet on the ground at Ayers Rock. Malouf's men and women are together but curiously alone, looking for something they seem to have missed, or missed out on, in life. Powerfully rooted in the heat and the dust of the vast Australian continent, this is a heartbreakingly beautiful and richly satisfying collection by a master storyteller, one of the great writers of our time.
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Very Good. Bookish boys and taciturn men, strong women and wayward sons, fathers and daughters, lovers and husbands, a composer and his muse, a builder-architect and his legacy-this title presents their stories. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 193 x 130 x 17. Weight in Grams: 188. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear. 2008. Paperback.....We ship daily from our Bookshop.
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This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has hardback covers. Clean from markings. In good all round condition. Dust jacket in good condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 450grams, ISBN: 9780701180485.
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None. Fine in Fine jacket. A signed first edition copy of Malouf's seven short stories in the Australian Outback. Signed by Malouf on title page. The stories tell of the lives of bookish boys, taciturn men, strong women and wayward sons, fathers and daughters, lovers and husbands, a composer and his muse and a builder and his legacy all rooted in the landscape of Australia. Malouf was awarded the Neustadt International Prize for Literature in 2000, he won the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award in 1996, and he was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. In a cloth binding with original unclipped dustwrapper. Externally, in lovely condition. Dustwrapper is excellent with just minor shelfwear only. Internally, binding of first title page is tender otherwise firmly bound with pages bright and clean. Fine.
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Very Good. Signed Copy First edition copy. Collectible-Very Good. Like New dust jacket. Signed by author on laid-in bookplate. In protective mylar cover.
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Very Good. Very good hardcover in dust jacket. Dust jacket shows light wear. Signed by author on title page. Pages are otherwise clean and unmarked. Binding is tight, hinges strong.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!
David Malouf is an outstanding Australian writer of novels, short stories, poetry and even three opera libretti. His most recent work is a collection of short stories, ?Every Move You Make.? There is no thematic unity or overlap between the seven stories in the collection other than the fact that they are all set in Australia at various times, in various places. The first, and longest of the stories, ?The Valley of the Lagoons,? is a story of a poor boy wanting to belong. He wants to join friends at the valley of the Lagoons, to him an exotic destination where camping, fishing and all sorts of outdoor fun occurs. Once he finally gets there near-tragedy results and the visit is not what he thought it would be. The second story is the title story and involves a mysterious builder whose designs are flawless but whose execution is haphazard. He often leaves his houses unfinished, even with windows missing. It becomes a great love story, albeit a mysterious one. ?War Baby? is the story of a young man who accepts his fate and his draft lottery number and volunteers to fight in Viet Nam. He returns, remarkably unchanged except for shedding some of the blitheness of youth. The gem of the rest of them is ?Mrs. Porter and the Rock? in which the overly-sensitive Mrs. Porter goes to Ayers Rock with her son. As can happen at Uluru, as the aborigines call it, strange things happen to Mrs. Porter?s mind as the Rock becomes almost alive. Or is it fully alive? These are literary short stories; they tend to dawdle occasionally and spin around one axis for perhaps a moment too long for impatient readers, but the language is elegant, the images imaginative and the Australian atmosphere is always present and always effective. A challenging, but rewarding read.