EVERY MOVE YOU MAKE
by David Malouf
A brilliant collection by a great international writer - Malouf's range is dazzling and his canvas is the vast Australian continent, with unsettling glimpses of a world beyond.
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Bookish boys and taciturn men, strong women and wayward sons, fathers and daughters, lovers and husbands, a composer and his muse, a builder-architect and his legacy - here are their stories, whole lives brought vividly into focus and so powerfully rooted in the landscape that you can almost feel the heat and the dust. His canvas is the vast Australian continent from the mysterious, glittering Valley of Lagoons behind the Great Divide in Far North Queensland, to bohemian Balmain and the Centre at Uluru, but always there are enticing glimpses of a world beyond, and the stories are tender, subtle, unsettlingly intimate.
A young man going off to war tries to make sense of his place in the world he is leaving; a composer's life plays itself out as a complex domestic cantata; an accident on a hunting trip speaks volumes, which its inarticulate victim never could; and, in the funniest, most surprising story of all, a down-to-earth woman stubbornly tries to keep her feet on the ground at Ayers Rock. Malouf'smen and women are together but curiously alone, looking for something they seem to have missed, or missed out on, in life, puzzling over the space they'll leave behind when the waters close over them.
This is a heartbreakingly beautiful, richly satisfying collection by a master storyteller, one of the great writers of our time.
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David Malouf has accompanied most of my adult reading life. The early fiction from,'Johnno' 'The Great World', and the wonderful,'Remembering Babylon', plus a few volumes of poetry, 'First Things' and 'Wild Lemons' I've stumbled upon rather than sought out...satisfying in the most without an adrenalin rush. So then is it a reflection on our accumulated wisdom that this collection of absolute stunners will have me hooked to whatever he publishes from hereon? I can't remember better stories anywhere; the coming of age perceptions in, Valley of Lagoons, the title tale,the Vietnam era's,'War Baby', and the comically sad regression of an old woman accompanying her 43 yr old son on a pilgrimage to Uluru. Alice Munro, Grace Paley, William Trevor, make way on my shelves.
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