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12 Edmondstone Street by David Malouf
Category: Biography
First published in 1985, this book combines autobiography with a sense of the ways in which the objects with which we surround ourselves, and the places in which we live, build our private maps of reality and shape our personal mythologies. By the author of "An Imaginary Life" and "Antipodes".
4 Classic Quarterly Essays on the Australian Story by David Malouf, Guy Rundle, Mungo MacCallum, Tim Flannery
Category: Australian Studies | Series: Quarterly Essay Ser.
Each essay here offers an intriguing angle on the Australian story. There is David Malouf's elegant and truthful account of the British inheritance and Mungo MacCallum's devastating chronicling of the refugee crisis and Australian history.
A First Place by David Malouf
Category: Biography
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 offering ...Show more
A First Place by David Malouf
Category: Languages and Reference
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 offering ...Show more
An Imaginary Life by David Malouf
Category: Fiction
"In the first century A. D., Publius Ovidius Naso, the most urbane and irreverant poet of imperial Rome, was banished to a remote village on the edge of the Black Sea. From these sparse facts, one of out most distinguished novelists has fashioned an audacious and supremely moving work of fiction. Maroon ...Show more
An Open Book by David Malouf
Category: Poetry
This is only David Malouf's third new poetry volume in nearly 40 years, so it is a significant publishing event. As one of Australia's greatest living poets, Malouf continues to meditate and reflect on themes of mortality and memory. The poems in An Open Bookare attentive and evocative, vital and beauti ...Show more
Antipodes by David Malouf
Category: Australian Fiction
In this volume of stories, first published in 1985, David Malouf evokes with compassion the emotions and excitement of adolescence, the melancholy threads that tie American immigrants to the Europe they left behind, and the sad, nostalgic power with which we endow the ordinary objects of life.
Being There by David Malouf
Category: Biography
Words, music, art and performance. The stuff of a satisfying life. After exploring the idea of home, where and what it is in A First Place, what does it mean to be a writer and where writing begins in The Writing Life, David Malouf moves on to words and music and art and performance in Being There. With ...Show more
Being There by David Malouf
Category: Biography
Words, music, art and performance. The stuff of a satisfying life. After exploring the idea of home, where and what it is in A First Place, what does it mean to be a writer and where writing begins in The Writing Life, David Malouf moves on to words and music and art and performance in Being There. With ...Show more
Child's Play by David Malouf
Category: Fiction
In an office there is a group of young people who work from morning till night, six days a week. Their way of life during office hours is dedicated and austere. The discipline they follow seems monastic. These people, who see themselves simply as "technologists", are in fact assassins.