12 Edmondstone Street (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: Good
Markings: Previous owner,Signed
Condition remarks: DJ: unclipped in mylar. Markings: name penned on fep.
What does it mean to be shaped by a place — its angles, its shadows, its half-remembered rooms? 12 Edmondstone Street is David Malouf's intimate and luminous memoir-essay, a meditation on the Brisbane childhood home that formed the architecture of his inner life. Rather than a conventional autobiography, the work presents a map of consciousness drawn from physical spaces: the houses, streets, and landscapes of a Queensland boyhood that quietly but irrevocably determined who he would become. Malouf, one of Australia's most celebrated and decorated literary voices, writes with a poet's precision and a novelist's gift for layered meaning — his prose is spare yet dense with implication, each sentence carrying the weight of lived experience and philosophical reflection. The book stands as both a deeply personal document and a broader argument about how geography and domestic space inscribe themselves upon identity. For readers who have ever wondered how much of themselves was made by the walls around them, Malouf's answer is as unsettling as it is beautiful.
Author: David Malouf
Format: Hardback
Published: 1985, Chatto & Windus
Genre: Biography
Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner,Signed
Condition remarks: DJ: unclipped in mylar. Markings: name penned on fep.
What does it mean to be shaped by a place — its angles, its shadows, its half-remembered rooms? 12 Edmondstone Street is David Malouf's intimate and luminous memoir-essay, a meditation on the Brisbane childhood home that formed the architecture of his inner life. Rather than a conventional autobiography, the work presents a map of consciousness drawn from physical spaces: the houses, streets, and landscapes of a Queensland boyhood that quietly but irrevocably determined who he would become. Malouf, one of Australia's most celebrated and decorated literary voices, writes with a poet's precision and a novelist's gift for layered meaning — his prose is spare yet dense with implication, each sentence carrying the weight of lived experience and philosophical reflection. The book stands as both a deeply personal document and a broader argument about how geography and domestic space inscribe themselves upon identity. For readers who have ever wondered how much of themselves was made by the walls around them, Malouf's answer is as unsettling as it is beautiful.