Child's Play: With Eustace And The Prowler
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
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
From one of Australia's most celebrated literary voices comes a haunting triptych of fiction that refuses to leave the reader undisturbed. Child's Play chronicles the cold, methodical inner world of an unnamed assassin as he prepares to kill a famous author — a novella of chilling psychological precision that dissects the relationship between violence, art, and obsession. Accompanying it are two short stories, Eustace and The Prowler, which further map the terrain of alienation, identity, and the uncanny forces that shape — and distort — human consciousness. David Malouf writes with the economy of a poet and the moral seriousness of a novelist fully aware of literature's power to unsettle. His prose is crystalline yet layered, drawing the reader into interior landscapes where meaning shifts beneath the surface like tectonic plates. Praised by the *Times Literary Supplement* as intensely enigmatic, this collection stands as a testament to Malouf's singular ability to render the ordinary terrifying and the terrifying oddly familiar. For readers who have yet to encounter his work, this volume is the perfect — and unsettling — introduction.
Author: David Malouf
Format: Paperback
Genre: Modern fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
From one of Australia's most celebrated literary voices comes a haunting triptych of fiction that refuses to leave the reader undisturbed. Child's Play chronicles the cold, methodical inner world of an unnamed assassin as he prepares to kill a famous author — a novella of chilling psychological precision that dissects the relationship between violence, art, and obsession. Accompanying it are two short stories, Eustace and The Prowler, which further map the terrain of alienation, identity, and the uncanny forces that shape — and distort — human consciousness. David Malouf writes with the economy of a poet and the moral seriousness of a novelist fully aware of literature's power to unsettle. His prose is crystalline yet layered, drawing the reader into interior landscapes where meaning shifts beneath the surface like tectonic plates. Praised by the *Times Literary Supplement* as intensely enigmatic, this collection stands as a testament to Malouf's singular ability to render the ordinary terrifying and the terrifying oddly familiar. For readers who have yet to encounter his work, this volume is the perfect — and unsettling — introduction.