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Fly Away Peter
David Malouf
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Description for Fly Away Peter
paperback. 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. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 11. Weight in Grams: 118.
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. In another hemisphere civilization rushes headlong into a brutal conflict. Life there is lived from moment to moment. 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. Alone on the beach, their friend Imogen, the middle-aged wildlife photographer, must acknowledge for all three of them that the past cannot be held.
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. In another hemisphere civilization rushes headlong into a brutal conflict. Life there is lived from moment to moment. 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. Alone on the beach, their friend Imogen, the middle-aged wildlife photographer, must acknowledge for all three of them that the past cannot be held.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Vintage
Condition
New
Number of Pages
160
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099273820
SKU
9780099273820
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Ref
99-1
About David Malouf
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 ... Read more
Reviews for Fly Away Peter
Malouf is subtle, lyric and insistent. His stories enter the memory and stay there.
Irish Times
Simply brilliant and naturalistically told
Guardian
The continuities of nature are set against the obscenities of war...to contruct a memorable book
Sunday Telegraph
The novel of a poet without a single trace of overwriting
Daily Telegraph
... Read more
Irish Times
Simply brilliant and naturalistically told
Guardian
The continuities of nature are set against the obscenities of war...to contruct a memorable book
Sunday Telegraph
The novel of a poet without a single trace of overwriting
Daily Telegraph
... Read more