David Malouf: The Complete Stories

Author: David Malouf

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Price : $22.99 AUD
ISBN : 9781741667417
Publisher : Random House Australia
Imprint : Vintage (Australia)
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Weight (g) : 0.5
Publication date : 01 November 0000
Dimensions : 126mm X 197mm X 38mm
Produced in : Australia
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Out of print date : 01 August 2018
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Author : David Malouf
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Edition : 1108
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Language : en
Dewey classification : 823.3
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Pages : 528
BIC subject : Modern fiction; Short stories
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Description

David Malouf's imagination inhabits shocking violence, quick humour, appealing warmth and harsh cruelty with equal intensity. This is a comprehensive compilation of David's shorter work. Stories are set in the hardscrabble Australian interior and coastal enclaves; others are set in Australia's past.

Awards

Shortlisted for Prime Minister's Literary Awards (Australia): Fiction 2008.

Author description

DAVID MALOUF is the author of short story collections THE COMPLETE STORIES (winner of the Australia Asia Literary Award), DREAM STUFF ('These stories are pearls,' - Spectator) and EVERY MOVE YOU MAKE and of acclaimed novels including THE GREAT WORLD (winner of the Commonwealth Writers' and Miles Franklin Prizes) and REMEMBERING BABYLON (shortlisted for the Booker Prize and winner of the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award). His most recent work RANSOM was shortlisted The Age Book of the Year Award and the Qld Premier's Literary Award. and the Prime Minister's Literary Award, the IMPAC Dublin Literary prize and Longlisted for the Man Booker International prize. He also writes poetry, drama and libretti for operas. Born and brought up in Brisbane, he lives in Sydney.

Acknowledgement of country

The Bundjalung of Byron Bay Arakwal People have lived in the coastal landscape around Byron Bay for at least 22,000 years.We acknowledge and show respect for the original people on the land on which we are based. We respectfully acknowledge the ancient cultural presence in the Australian landscape by First Nation peoples and their ongoing traditional and spiritual custodianship of the marine areas, beaches, bush, rivers, lakes and mountains.