Fly Away Peter

Informationen zum Autor David Malouf is the internationally acclaimed author of novels including The Great World (winner of the Commonwealth Writers' prize and the Prix Femina Etranger), Remembering Babylon (shortlisted for the Booker Prize and winner of the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award), An Imaginary Life , Conversations at Curlow Creek, Dream Stuff ('These stories are pearls' Spectator ), Every Move You Make ('Rare and luminous talent' Guardian ), his autobiographical classic 12 Edmondstone Street and Ransom . His Collected Stories won the 2008 Australia-Asia Literary Award. In 2008 Malouf was the Scottish Arts' Council Muriel Spark International Fellow. He was born in 1934 and was brought up in Brisbane. Klappentext It is the Gold Coast, Queensland, in 1914, and a man returns home from England to claim the land he has inherited. For Ashley Crowther, it is a landscape "that could accommodate a good deal". For Jim Saddler, the land is a sanctuary. For Imogen it is a place of study. Zusammenfassung For three very different people brought together by their love for birds, life on the Queensland coast in 1914 is the timeless and idyllic world of sandpipers, ibises and kingfishers. Inevitably, the two young men - sanctuary owner and employee - are drawn to the war, and into the mud and horror of the trenches of Armentieres.

Product details

• Authors: David Malouf, Malouf David
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 20.05.1999
• EAN: 9780099273820
• ISBN: 978-0-09-927382-0
• No. of pages: 160
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 10 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Queensland, FICTION / War & Military, France, c 1910 to c 1919, First World War fiction, Modern and contemporary fiction, c 1914 to c 1918 (including WW1), Modern and contemporary Fiction (post 1945), Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary