Antipodes: Stories By David Malouf (SIGNED)
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: Signed
Condition remarks: price clipped dj, in mylar.
From one of Australia's most celebrated literary voices comes Antipodes, a masterfully crafted collection of short stories that charts the emotional and psychological landscapes of ordinary men and women caught in extraordinary moments of self-discovery. David Malouf presents twelve precisely observed tales set against the backdrop of Australia and Europe, where characters navigate the tensions between memory and desire, intimacy and isolation, the familiar and the utterly foreign — all rendered in prose of crystalline beauty. Malouf's signature style — spare yet luminous, deceptively simple yet rich with implication — transforms everyday encounters into profound meditations on identity, belonging, and the invisible threads that connect us to place and to one another. As one of the pre-eminent figures of contemporary Australian literature, his short fiction carries the same gravitas and quiet power as his celebrated novels, revealing character through gesture, silence, and the weight of the unspoken. Antipodes leaves the reader with the unsettling and exhilarating sense that the world just beneath the surface of daily life is stranger, and far more alive, than it first appears.
Author: David Malouf
Format: Hardback
Published: 1985, Chatto & Windus / The Hogarth Press
Genre: Fiction
Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: Signed
Condition remarks: price clipped dj, in mylar.
From one of Australia's most celebrated literary voices comes Antipodes, a masterfully crafted collection of short stories that charts the emotional and psychological landscapes of ordinary men and women caught in extraordinary moments of self-discovery. David Malouf presents twelve precisely observed tales set against the backdrop of Australia and Europe, where characters navigate the tensions between memory and desire, intimacy and isolation, the familiar and the utterly foreign — all rendered in prose of crystalline beauty. Malouf's signature style — spare yet luminous, deceptively simple yet rich with implication — transforms everyday encounters into profound meditations on identity, belonging, and the invisible threads that connect us to place and to one another. As one of the pre-eminent figures of contemporary Australian literature, his short fiction carries the same gravitas and quiet power as his celebrated novels, revealing character through gesture, silence, and the weight of the unspoken. Antipodes leaves the reader with the unsettling and exhilarating sense that the world just beneath the surface of daily life is stranger, and far more alive, than it first appears.