Antipodes - Couverture rigide

Malouf, David

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0701161213 ISBN 13 : 9780701161217

Editeur : Chatto & Windus, 1993

Synopsis

In this volume of stories, first published in 1985, David Malouf evokes with compassion the emotions and excitement of adolescence, the melancholy threads that tie American immigrants to the Europe they left behind, and the sad, nostalgic power with which we endow the ordinary objects of life.

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur

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 and his autobiographical classic 12 Edmondstone Street. His Collected Stories won the 2008 Australia-Asia Literary Award, and his story collections are Dream Stuff and Every Move You Make where met with critical acclaim. In 2008 Malouf was the Scottish Arts' Council Muriel Spark International Fellow. Born in 1934 in Brisbane, he now lives in Sydney.

Présentation de l'éditeur

Antipodes is a stunning collection of stories which pinpoint the contrast between the old world and the new, between youth and age, love and hatred and even life and death itself. . .

This debut collection from David Malouf, now one of Australia's most highly acclaimed and popular authors, won the Victorian Premier's Literary Award and the Vance Palmer Award and established Malouf's reputation as one of the great writers of contemporary Australian fiction.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Chatto & Windus
• Date d'édition: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0701161213
• ISBN 13: 9780701161217
• Reliure: Relié
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 160
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible