A First Place
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
What does it mean to belong to a place — to feel its soil beneath your feet, its stories threaded through your bones? In A First Place, celebrated Australian author David Malouf presents a luminous collection of essays that meditate on the nature of landscape, memory, and national identity, drawing on the particular textures of Australian life to ask universal questions about how place shapes consciousness and culture. From the intimacy of childhood geography to the vast, sun-scorched expanses of the continent, Malouf chronicles the way a nation constructs itself through imagination as much as history. Malouf brings to this collection the same lyrical precision and philosophical acuity that have distinguished his celebrated fiction and poetry, crafting essays that are at once intimate and expansive. His prose moves with an unhurried elegance, weaving together personal reminiscence, cultural criticism, and literary reflection to produce something that transcends the conventional essay form. For readers who have long admired Malouf's ability to illuminate the interior life of a nation through language, A First Place offers an essential key to understanding what Australia truly is — and what it might yet become.
Author: David Malouf
Format: Hardback
Published: 2014, Knopf
Genre: Essays
Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
What does it mean to belong to a place — to feel its soil beneath your feet, its stories threaded through your bones? In A First Place, celebrated Australian author David Malouf presents a luminous collection of essays that meditate on the nature of landscape, memory, and national identity, drawing on the particular textures of Australian life to ask universal questions about how place shapes consciousness and culture. From the intimacy of childhood geography to the vast, sun-scorched expanses of the continent, Malouf chronicles the way a nation constructs itself through imagination as much as history. Malouf brings to this collection the same lyrical precision and philosophical acuity that have distinguished his celebrated fiction and poetry, crafting essays that are at once intimate and expansive. His prose moves with an unhurried elegance, weaving together personal reminiscence, cultural criticism, and literary reflection to produce something that transcends the conventional essay form. For readers who have long admired Malouf's ability to illuminate the interior life of a nation through language, A First Place offers an essential key to understanding what Australia truly is — and what it might yet become.