The Conversations At Curlow Creek (SIGNED)
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: 1st uk ed., 1st pr.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
Markings: Signed
Condition remarks: aus price on dj.
On the eve of a frontier execution in nineteenth-century colonial Australia, two men — an Irish-born trooper and a convicted bushranger — spend their final night together in a vigil of confession, memory, and mutual revelation. The Conversations at Curlow Creek is a spare and luminous work of historical fiction, set against the brutal landscape of the Australian outback, where the law's iron certainties dissolve into the ambiguities of loyalty, exile, and the longing for home. David Malouf constructs a narrative of extraordinary compression, moving between the condemned man's last hours and the trooper's haunted recollections of Ireland and lost love, weaving past and present into a seamless meditation on fate. Malouf, widely regarded as one of Australia's greatest prose stylists, writes with a poetic precision that transforms a stark colonial encounter into a universal inquiry into justice, chance, and what it means to be bound to another human life. The novel stands as a profound achievement in Australian letters, illustrating how the raw materials of history — violence, displacement, and colonial ambition — can be transmuted into myth. Readers who surrender to its quiet, inexorable momentum will find themselves questioning where guilt ends and grace begins.
Author: David Malouf
Format: Hardback
Published: 1996, Chatto & Windus
Genre: Historical fiction
Edition: 1st uk ed., 1st pr.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
Markings: Signed
Condition remarks: aus price on dj.
On the eve of a frontier execution in nineteenth-century colonial Australia, two men — an Irish-born trooper and a convicted bushranger — spend their final night together in a vigil of confession, memory, and mutual revelation. The Conversations at Curlow Creek is a spare and luminous work of historical fiction, set against the brutal landscape of the Australian outback, where the law's iron certainties dissolve into the ambiguities of loyalty, exile, and the longing for home. David Malouf constructs a narrative of extraordinary compression, moving between the condemned man's last hours and the trooper's haunted recollections of Ireland and lost love, weaving past and present into a seamless meditation on fate. Malouf, widely regarded as one of Australia's greatest prose stylists, writes with a poetic precision that transforms a stark colonial encounter into a universal inquiry into justice, chance, and what it means to be bound to another human life. The novel stands as a profound achievement in Australian letters, illustrating how the raw materials of history — violence, displacement, and colonial ambition — can be transmuted into myth. Readers who surrender to its quiet, inexorable momentum will find themselves questioning where guilt ends and grace begins.