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The Complete Stories

an Australian literary anthology
By David Malouf
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The Complete Stories by David Malouf is a compelling collection that spans various narratives depicting the human condition with depth and poetic clarity. Through an array of characters and settings, the stories explore themes of identity, memory, and the intricacies of relationships. Richly textured, each story invites readers into a world filled with vivid imagery and profound emotional resonance.
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You might enjoy this collection if you're captivated by beautifully crafted short stories that explore themes of identity, belonging, and the human condition. Each tale offers rich character insights and evocative settings, showcasing David Malouf's masterful storytelling prowess. Fans of reflective and perceptive fiction will likely find this book particularly rewarding.

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The Complete Stories

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Thirty-one epic stories from Australia's award-winning author David Malouf.

WINNER OF THE AUSTRALIA-ASIA LITERARY AWARD
SHORTLISTED FOR THE PRIME MINISTER'S LITERARY AWARD

In these thirty-one stories, David Malouf's imagination inhabits shocking violence, quick humour, appealing warmth, and harsh cruelty with equal intensity. He shares tales of bookish boys, taciturn men, and intimate stories of men and women looking for something they seem to have missed, or missed out on.

A comprehensive compilation of David's shorter work, the stories are set in the stark and challenging Australian interior and the more lush and mysterious coastal enclaves; others are set in Australia's past.

The youthful dreams, physical desires, and mental despair of Malouf's richly varied characters as they explore their place in the world are always moving and universal.

Readers won't want to skim a single page of the stories in this epic collection, a few of which are novella length. Together, they represent a quarter-century of a formidable craftsman's career.

'Australia's finest writer' - MIRIAM COSIC, THE AUSTRALIAN
'Malouf is a lyrical story-writer.' - MALCOLM KNOX, THE SYDNEY MORNING HERALD
'A richly imagistic writer, philosophical and literary in the best sense.' - WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD
'A first-rate writer-a sensitive historian of the spirit.' - WALL STREET JOURNAL

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780143790853

Publisher: Penguin Random House Australia

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 19 March 2018

Country: Australia

Imprint: Penguin Random House Australia

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 45.0mm

Width: 129.0mm

Height: 197.0mm

Weight: 422g

Pages: 528

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David Malouf Fiction General Fiction Literary Fiction Penguin Books

About the Author

David Malouf is the internationally acclaimed author of novels including Ransom, The Great World (winner of the Commonwealth Writers' prize and the Prix Femina Etranger), Remembering Babylon (winner of the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award), An Imaginary Life, Conversations at Curlow Creek, Dream Stuff, Every Move You Make and his autobiographical classic 12 Edmondstone Street. His Collected Stories won the 2008 Australia-Asia Literary Award. His most recent books are A First Place and The Writing Life. He was born in 1934 and was brought up in Brisbane.

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