Dream Stuff - Hardcover

Malouf, David

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0701169427 ISBN 13: 9780701169428

Publisher: Chatto & Windus London, UK, 2000

Synopsis

David Malouf's winning of the first IMPAC Dublin award for Remembering Babylon conferred belated recognition of one of the finest figures in English writing. His string of works, both poetry and fiction, provide the reader with endless opportunities to view life from many sides. He has, as this book shows, a particular talent for presenting the world through children's eyes. Dream Stuff is a collection of short stories mainly centred on how children perceive themselves.

About this title

About the Author:

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, His most recent, Ransom, published in 2010, and his autobiographical classic 12 Edmondstone Street. His Collected Stories won the 2008 Australia-Asia Literary Award, and his recent story collections are Dream Stuff ('These stories are pearls' Spectator) and Every Move You Make ('Rare and luminous talent' Guardian). In 2008 Malouf was the Scottish Arts' Council Muriel Spark International Fellow. Born in 1934 in Brisbane, where he was brought up, he lives in Sydney.

Review:

From the image of a small boy entranced by his mother's GI Escort, yet still hoping for the return of a father 'missing in action', to the portrait of an adult writer trying to piece together a defining image of his late father, these outstanding stories conjure up with sharp intensity the memories and events that make a man. These powerfully vivid stories range over more than a century of Australian life, from green tropical lushness to 'blacksoil country', from scrub and outback to city streets - evoking dark shadows beneath a bright sun, and lives shaped by the ghosts of history and the rhythms of unruly nature.

About this edition

• Publisher: Chatto & Windus London, UK
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0701169427
• ISBN 13: 9780701169428
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1