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Child's Play

Child's Play

With Eustace and the Prowler

by David Malouf
Paperback
Publication Date: 05/02/1999

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'Like the dreams that regularly perturb their characters, the short novel and the two stories gathered here are intensely enigmatic' - Times Literary Supplement

In the streets of an ordinary Italian town, the people go about their everyday lives. In an old apartment block above them, a young man pores over photographs and plans, dedicated to his life's most important project. Day by day, in his imagination, he is rehearsing for his greatest performance. Yet when his moment comes, nothing could have prepared him for what happens...
ISBN:
9780099273851
9780099273851
Category:
Contemporary fiction
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
05-02-1999
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Pages:
224
Dimensions (mm):
198x129x17mm
Weight:
0.17kg
David Malouf

David Malouf was born in Brisbane in 1934. Since 'Interiors' in Four Poets, 1962, he has published poetry, novels and short stories, essays, opera librettos and a play, and is widely translated.

His most recent poetry volumes include Typewriter Music (UQP, 2007) and his selected poems, Revolving Days, (UQP, 2008). Earth Hour (UQP, 2014), won both the Judith Wright Calanthe Award, the Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry and was shortlisted for the Prime Minister's Literary Awards.

Malouf was made an Officer of the Order of Australia in 1987 and elected an Honorary Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 1989. In 1997 he was declared an Australian National Living Treasure, while he received the Neustadt International Prize for Literature in 2000.

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