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Antipodes

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Antipodes
Authors and Contributors      By (author) David Malouf
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:176
Dimensions(mm): Height 198,Width 129
Category/GenreModern and contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Short stories
ISBN/Barcode 9780099273790
ClassificationsDewey:823
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Vintage Publishing
Imprint Vintage
Publication Date 20 May 1999
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

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. Antipodes is a stunning collection of stories which pinpoint the contrast between the old world and the new, between youth and age, love and hatred and even life and death itself. . . This debut collection from David Malouf, now one of Australia's most highly acclaimed and popular authors, won the Victorian Premier's Literary Award and the Vance Palmer Award and established Malouf's reputation as one of the great writers of contemporary Australian fiction.

Author Biography

David Malouf is the internationally acclaimed author of novels including The Great World (winner of the Commonwealth Writers' prize and the Prix Femina Etranger), Remembering Babylon (shortlisted for the Booker Prize and winner of the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award), An Imaginary Life, Conversations at Curlow Creek and his autobiographical classic 12 Edmondstone Street. His Collected Stories won the 2008 Australia-Asia Literary Award, and his story collections are Dream Stuff and Every Move You Make where met with critical acclaim. In 2008 Malouf was the Scottish Arts' Council Muriel Spark International Fellow. Born in 1934 in Brisbane, he now lives in Sydney.

Reviews

Meticulous... precise... often very beautiful * The Times * Extraordinary and compelling * Observer * David Malouf is a fine writer * Sunday Telegraph *