12 Edmonstone Street

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 A complex history comes down to us, through household jokes and anecdotes, odd family habits, and irrational superstitions, that forever shapes what we see and the way in which we see it. Beginning with his childhood home, David Malouf moves on to show other landmarks in his life, and the way places and things create our private worlds. Zusammenfassung A complex history comes down to us, through household jokes and anecdotes, odd family habits, and irrational superstitions, that forever shapes what we see and the way in which we see it. Beginning with his childhood home, David Malouf moves on to show other landmarks in his life, and the way places and things create our private worlds.

Product details

• Authors: David Malouf, Malouf David
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 20.05.1999
• EAN: 9780099273783
• ISBN: 978-0-09-927378-3
• No. of pages: 160
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 10 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Australia, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Autobiography: writers, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary