In this volume of stories, first published in 1985, David Malouf evokes with compassion the emotions and excitement of adolescence, the melancholy threads that tie American immigrants to the Europe they left behind, and the sad, nostalgic power with which we endow the ordinary objects of life.
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"Meticulous... precise... often very beautiful" (The Times)
"Extraordinary and compelling" (Observer)
"David Malouf is a fine writer" (Sunday Telegraph)
The striking debut by David Malouf, now one of the most criticallly acclaimed and popular authors in Australian literature.
Winner of the Victorian Premier's Literary Award and the Vance Palmer Award for Fiction.
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