Child's Play: The Bread Of Time To Come
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.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
A luminous work of literary fiction by one of Australia's most celebrated writers, Child's Play: The Bread of Time to Come presents two distinct novellas bound together by Malouf's signature lyrical intensity and preoccupation with identity, memory, and the forces that shape a life. The first novella, Child's Play, chronicles the inner world of a young assassin as he meticulously plans the murder of a famous author, rendering the act of political violence with chilling psychological precision and a detached, almost aesthetic calm. The second, The Bread of Time to Come, transports readers to nineteenth-century Australia, following a German immigrant as he carves out an existence on the raw colonial frontier, illustrating how landscape and isolation transform the human spirit. Together, the two works showcase Malouf's extraordinary gift for prose that is at once spare and richly evocative, turning intimate personal narratives into meditations on civilization, art, and what it means to belong to a place or a moment in time.
Author: David Malouf
Format: Paperback
Published: 1982, George Braziller, New York
Genre: Poetry
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
A luminous work of literary fiction by one of Australia's most celebrated writers, Child's Play: The Bread of Time to Come presents two distinct novellas bound together by Malouf's signature lyrical intensity and preoccupation with identity, memory, and the forces that shape a life. The first novella, Child's Play, chronicles the inner world of a young assassin as he meticulously plans the murder of a famous author, rendering the act of political violence with chilling psychological precision and a detached, almost aesthetic calm. The second, The Bread of Time to Come, transports readers to nineteenth-century Australia, following a German immigrant as he carves out an existence on the raw colonial frontier, illustrating how landscape and isolation transform the human spirit. Together, the two works showcase Malouf's extraordinary gift for prose that is at once spare and richly evocative, turning intimate personal narratives into meditations on civilization, art, and what it means to belong to a place or a moment in time.