The Conversations at Curlow Creek

Author(s): David Malouf

Fiction

In 1827, in a hut on the plains of New South Wales, two strangers spend the night in talk. Carney, an illiterate Irishman, is to be hanged at dawn. Adair, also Irish, has been sent to supervise the hanging. The novel moves between Australia and Ireland to explore questions of nature and justice.

General Information

  • : 9780099744016
  • : Vintage Australia
  • : 0.268
  • : 01 July 1997
  • : books

Other Specifications

  • : David Malouf
  • : Paperback
  • : New edition
  • : English
  • : 823
  • : 224
  • : Historical fiction; Modern fiction

More About The Product

Shortlisted for Book Data/ABA Book of the Year Award 1997.