Every Move You Make
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: 1st ed., 1st pr.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Unclipped dj
What does it mean to truly know another person — and what happens in the quiet, unguarded moments that define a life? Every Move You Make is a masterful collection of short fiction by one of Australia's most celebrated literary voices, David Malouf, in which he turns an unflinching gaze on the secret lives of ordinary men and women navigating the currents of love, memory, and transformation. Set across a range of intimate, precisely rendered landscapes, these stories chronicle the small yet seismic shifts that occur between people — between partners, strangers, parents and children — revealing how profoundly a single moment can alter the course of an existence. Malouf writes with the spare elegance and psychological acuity that have long distinguished his prose, crafting narratives that operate simultaneously as realist vignettes and luminous meditations on the human condition. His sentences carry the weight of poetry — compressed, resonant, and alive with implication — and his characters linger in the mind long after the final page. This collection stands as compelling evidence of why Malouf is regarded as one of the essential writers of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries; readers who surrender to his world will find themselves reconsidering the texture of their own.
Author: David Malouf
Format: Hardback
Published: 2006, Chatto & Windus
Genre: Modern fiction
Edition: 1st ed., 1st pr.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Unclipped dj
What does it mean to truly know another person — and what happens in the quiet, unguarded moments that define a life? Every Move You Make is a masterful collection of short fiction by one of Australia's most celebrated literary voices, David Malouf, in which he turns an unflinching gaze on the secret lives of ordinary men and women navigating the currents of love, memory, and transformation. Set across a range of intimate, precisely rendered landscapes, these stories chronicle the small yet seismic shifts that occur between people — between partners, strangers, parents and children — revealing how profoundly a single moment can alter the course of an existence. Malouf writes with the spare elegance and psychological acuity that have long distinguished his prose, crafting narratives that operate simultaneously as realist vignettes and luminous meditations on the human condition. His sentences carry the weight of poetry — compressed, resonant, and alive with implication — and his characters linger in the mind long after the final page. This collection stands as compelling evidence of why Malouf is regarded as one of the essential writers of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries; readers who surrender to his world will find themselves reconsidering the texture of their own.