From the image of a small boy entranced by his mother's GI escort, yet still hoping for the return of his father 'missing in action', to the portrait of an adult writer trying to piece together a defining image of his late father, these outstanding stories conjure up with dazzling intensity the memories and events that make a man. Through the unreliable layers of family archaeology, they uncover earlier, vulnerable selves, moments of innocence or shame, and unfinished business, illuminated by shocking flashes of unpredictable violence and pain, or glints of sly humour. In the brilliant cornerstone story, the stuff of dreams is both real and imagined -rumoured fields of cannabis picked in secret by migrant workers, or a nightmare encounter on a dark Brisbane street. In 'Night Training' a military recruit is scarred by his own complicity in a bizarre nightly ritual; and in 'Sally's Story', a 'comfort' girl looks for comfort of her own. Here are men and women in search of connection, or equally wary of it - whether with each other or with past selves.
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"Outstanding...Malouf at his absolute best." — The Observer
"Maloufs stories are like riptides...his first few lines pool up to readers with calm ease and grace before hurling them headlong into the dark heart of his vision." — National Post
"One and all, these masterful stories are such stuff as dreams are made of." — Kirkus Reviews
"In this collection&the dreamlike, almost metaphysical qualities of the land are simply part of the overwhelming strangeness." — The Toronto Star --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
"Maloufs stories are like riptides...his first few lines pool up to readers with calm ease and grace before hurling them headlong into the dark heart of his vision." — National Post
"One and all, these masterful stories are such stuff as dreams are made of." — Kirkus Reviews
"In this collection&the dreamlike, almost metaphysical qualities of the land are simply part of the overwhelming strangeness." — The Toronto Star --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
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David Malouf, internationally recognized as one of Australia's finest writers, is the winner of the 2000 Lannan Literary Award, as well as the Commonwealth Writers Prize and the Prix Femina Etranger. Remembering Babylon was shortlisted for the 1993 Booker Prize and awarded the inaugural international IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. Malouf divides his time between Australia and Tuscany.
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By yh tac (Melbourne, Australia) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Dream Stuff (Paperback)
This is a book I would like to erase from my memory. It's pure mediocrity astounds me. The stories are obviously supposed to be deep and emotional and moving *tear* but they fail abysmally. They are, to a man, a flop. Pointless, boring, inane.
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