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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.
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David Malouf is the author of ten novels and six volumes of poetry. His novel The Great World was awarded both the prestigious Commonwealth Prize and the Prix Femina Estranger. Remembering Babylon was short-listed for the Booker Prize. He lives in Sydney, Australia.
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"Malouf is subtle, lyric and insistent. His stories enter the memory and stay there." * Irish Times * "Simply brilliant and naturalistically told" * Guardian * "The continuities of nature are set against the obscenities of war...to contruct a memorable book" * Sunday Telegraph * "The novel of a poet without a single trace of overwriting" * Daily Telegraph *
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- PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Publication date1998
- ISBN 10 0679776702
- ISBN 13 9780679776703
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages144
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