Bibliograph

The complete stories, David Malouf

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The complete stories, David Malouf

Language

eng

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no index present

Literary Form

short stories

Main title

The complete stories

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David Malouf

Summary

Thirty-one epic stories from Australia's award-winning author David Malouf. David Malouf's imagination inhabits shocking violence, quick humour, appealing warmth and harsh cruelty with equal intensity. He shares tales of bookish boys, taciturn men and intimate stories of men and women looking for something they seem to have missed, or missed out on. This is a comprehensive compilation of David's shorter work. Stories are set in the stark and challenging Australian interior and the more lush and mysterious coastal enclaves; others are set in Australia's past. The youthful dreams, physical desires and mental despair of Malouf's richly varied characters as they explore their place in the world are always moving and universal

Table Of Contents

The valley of lagoons -- Every move you make -- War baby -- Towards midnight -- Elsewhere -- Mrs. Porter and the rock -- The domestic cantata -- At Schindler's -- Closer -- Dream stuff -- Night training -- Sally's story -- Jacko's reach -- Lone pine -- Blacksoil country -- Great day -- Southern skies -- A trip to the grundelsee -- The empty lunch-tin -- Sorrows and secrets -- That antic Jezebel -- The only speaker of his tongue -- Out of the stream -- The sun in winter -- Bad blood -- A change of scene -- In trust -- A traveller's tale -- A medium -- Eustace -- The prowler

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