Synopses & Reviews
In this stunning collection, internationally acclaimed writer David Malouf gives us bookish boys and taciturn men, strong women and wayward sons, fathers and daughters, lovers and husbands, a composer and his muse. These are their stories, whole lives brought dramatically into focus and powerfully rooted in the vividly rendered landscape of the vast Australian continent. Malouf writes about men and women looking for something they seem to have missed, or missed out on, puzzling over not only their own lives but also the place they have come to occupy in the lives of others.
This single volume gathers both a new collection of Malouf's short fiction, Every Move You Make, and all of his previously published stories.
Synopsis
In this stunning collection, internationally acclaimed writer David Malouf gives us bookish boys and taciturn men, strong women and wayward sons, fathers and daughters, lovers and husbands, a composer and his muse. These are their stories, whole lives brought dramatically into focus and powerfully rooted in the vividly rendered landscape of the vast Australian continent. Malouf writes about men and women looking for something they seem to have missed, or missed out on, puzzling over not only their own lives but also the place they have come to occupy in the lives of others. This single volume gathers both a new collection of Malouf's short fiction, Every Move You Make, and all of his previously published stories.
About the Author
David Malouf is the author of ten novels and six volumes of poetry. His novel The Great World was awarded both the prestigious Commonwealth Prize and the Prix Femina Estranger. Remembering Babylon was short-listed for the Booker Prize. He lives in Sydney, Australia.
Table of Contents
EVERY MOVE YOU MAKEThe Valley of Lagoons
Every Move You Make
War Baby
Towards Midnight
Elsewhere
Mrs. Porter and the Rock
The Domestic Cantata
DREAM STUFF
At Schindlers
Closer
Dream Stuff
Night Training
Sallys Story
Jackos Reach
Lone Pine
Blacksoil Country
Great Day
ANTIPODES
Southern Skies
A Trip to the Grundelsee
The Empty Lunch-tin
Sorrows and Secrets
That Antic Jezebel
The Only Speaker of His Tongue
Out of the Stream
The Sun in Winter
Bad Blood
A Change of Scene
In Trust
A Travellers Tale
A Medium
CHILDS PLAY
Eustace
The Prowler