The conversations at Curlow Creek - Brossura

Malouf, David

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0099744015 ISBN 13: 9780099744016

Casa editrice: Random UK, 2000

Riassunto

The year is 1827, and in a remote hut on the high plains of New South Wales, two strangers spend the night in talk. One, Carney, an illiterate Irishman, ex-convict and bushranger, is to be hanged at dawn. The other, Adair, also Irish, is an officer of the police who has been sent to supervise the hanging. As the night wears on, the two discover unexpected connections between their lives, and learn new truths.

Outside the hut, Adair's troopers sit uneasily, reflecting on their own pasts and futures, waiting for the morning to come. With ironic humour and in prose of starkly evocative power, the novel moves between Australia and Ireland to explore questions of nature and justice, reason and un-reason, the workings of fate, and the small measure of freedom a man may claim in the face of death.

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Recensione:

"The novel opens onto enchanted vistas- memories, dreams, intimations of tenderness and transcendence" (Lucy Hughes-Hallett Sunday Times)

"A compelling and richly rewarding novel" (Helen Dunmore The Times)

"Original and impressive" (William Trevor)

"Exquisite and intriguing" (Kate Figes Elle)

Descrizione del libro:

'A strange, beautiful novel... It represents a deepening of Malouf's style, offering the reader greater intensity and confirming Malouf's position as one of the most exciting and uncompromising writers now producing novels in English' - Colm Toibin

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Random UK
• Data di pubblicazione: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0099744015
• ISBN 13: 9780099744016
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 272