Fly Away Peter
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Fly Away Peter by David Malouf
In this shimmering work of imagination, one of Australia's most honored writers conjures a single still moment on the edge of the 20th century in which two unlikely people share a friendship. When Ashley Crowther returns to Australia to manage his father's property, he discovers a timeless landscape of kingfishers and ibises; he also meets Jim Saddler, the young woodsman who becomes Ashley's guide to his inheritance. Together they discard the differences of personality and class to enter a partnership of wonder. But when war breaks out in Europe, Jim and Ashley are drawn into obscene enterprise of the trenches, where death falls from the sky and burrows out of the earth. In telling the story of these men, Fly Away Peter combines overwhelmingly sensual imagery with an unblinking consciousness of the worst that history can inflict to produce a novel of phosphorescent beauty.
David Malouf is a poet and writer who was awarded the Neustadt International Prize for Literature in 2000. He is the author of Dream Stuff, The Great World, winner of the Miles Franklin Prize, Remembering Babylon, which won the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and was short-listed for the Booker Prize, and the poetry collections Revolving Days and Typewriter Music.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780679776703 |
| ISBN 10 | 0679776702 |
| Title | Fly Away Peter |
| Author | David Malouf |
| Series | Vintage International |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Random House USA Inc |
| Year published | 1998-05-26 |
| Number of pages | 144 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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