The Conversations at Curlow Creek: A Novel - Brossura

Malouf, David

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0679779051 ISBN 13: 9780679779056

Casa editrice: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1998

Riassunto

In 1827, in a remote hut in New South Wales, two strangers--an illiterate Irish ex-convict scheduled to be hanged and the police officer sent to supervise the hanging--exchange memories and discover unlikely links between their lives. Reprint. 20,000 first printing. Tour.

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L'autore:

David Malouf is the author of ten novels and six volumes of poetry. His novelThe Great World was awarded both the prestigious Commonwealth Prize and the Prix Femina Estranger.Remembering Babylon was short-listed for the Booker Prize. He lives in Sydney, Australia.

Product Description:

Set in Australia in 1827, "The Conversations at Curlow Creek" is an extraordinary exploration of nature and justice, of the workings of fate, of intimacy, compassion, and duty. Two men talk through the night - a convict waiting to be hanged at dawn and the officer in charge of the hanging - revealing their pasts, discovering unlikely connections between their lives. And in the precise, evocative language and with the acute perception we have come to expect from David Malouf, the conversation between these two dissimilar men goes far beyond the details of their lives to express both the isolation of the individual and the experiences, shared in silence, that unite us all.

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• Editore: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Data di pubblicazione: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0679779051
• ISBN 13: 9780679779056
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 240