The Conversations at Curlow Creek

MALOUF, David

ISBN 10: 0701165715 / ISBN 13: 9780701165710

Edité par Chatto and Windus, 1996

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First UK edition. Pages tanned otherwise near Fine In Near Fine jacket.

N° de réf. du vendeur 13325

Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: The Conversations at Curlow Creek
• Éditeur: Chatto and Windus
• Date de parution: 1996
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0701165715
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780701165710
• Reliure: Couverture rigide
• Édition: First Edition.
• État de la jaquette: Jaquette

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Synopsis

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 the police officer 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. A new novel by Malouf is a major event; THE CONVERSATIONS AT CURLOW CREEK will confirm him as one of the greatest novelists of our time.

À propos 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, 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.