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Books by David Malouf
  | | The Happy Life(1st Edition) The Search for Contentment in the Modern World by David Malouf Hardcover, 96 Pages, Published 2013 by Pantheon ISBN-13: 978-0-307-90771-4, ISBN: 0-307-90771-6 "By Australia’s greatest contemporary author, an elegant, succinct meditation on what makes for a happy life. ;-)“Happiness surely is among the simplest of human emotions and the most spontaneous,” says David Malouf. But what exactly are we looking for when we chase happiness? At this particular moment in history, privileged, industrialized nations have lessened much of what makes us unhappy: widespread poverty, illness, famine. Yet we a ..." |
 | | Ransom A Novel by David Malouf Paperback, 240 Pages, Published 2011 by Vintage ISBN-13: 978-0-307-47524-4, ISBN: 0-307-47524-7 "In his first novel in more than a decade, award-winning author David Malouf reimagines the pivotal narrative of Homer s "Iliad" one of the most famous passages in all of literature. This is the story of the relationship between two grieving men at war: fierce Achilles, who has lost his beloved Patroclus in the siege of Troy; and woeful Priam, whose son Hector killed Patroclus and was in turn savaged by Achilles. A moving tale of sufferi ..." |
 | | The Complete Stories(Reprint) (Vintage International) by David Malouf Paperback, 576 Pages, Published 2008 by Vintage ISBN-13: 978-0-307-38603-8, ISBN: 0-307-38603-1 "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 ..." |
 | | Fly Away Peter(Reprint) by David Malouf Paperback, 144 Pages, Published 1998 by Vintage ISBN-13: 978-0-679-77670-3, ISBN: 0-679-77670-2 "In this shimmering work of imagination, one of Australia's most honored writers conjures a single still moment on the edge of the 20th century in which two unlikely people share a friendship. When Ashley Crowther returns to Australia to manage his father's property, he discovers a timeless landscape of kingfishers and ibises; he also meets Jim Saddler, the young woodsman who becomes Ashley's guide to his inheritance. Together they disca ..." |
 | | An Imaginary Life(Reprint) by David Malouf Paperback, 160 Pages, Published 1996 by Vintage ISBN-13: 978-0-679-76793-0, ISBN: 0-679-76793-2 "In the first century A.D., Publius Ovidius Naso, the most urbane and irreverent poet of imperial Rome, was banished to a remote village on the edge of the Black Sea. From these sparse facts, Malouf has fashioned an audacious and supremely moving novel. Marooned on the edge of the known world, exiled from his native tongue, Ovid depends on the kindness of barbarians who impale their dead and converse with the spirit world.Then he becomes ..." |
 | | Short Black 7 the One Day (Paperback Or Softback) by David Malouf Paperback, 64 Pages, Published 2015 by Black Inc. Short Blacks ISBN-13: 978-1-86395-769-4, ISBN: 1-86395-769-3 "Silence was a deeply established tradition. Men used it as a form of self-protection; it saved those who had experienced the horrors of war from the emotional trauma of experiencing it all over again in the telling. And it saved women and children, back home, from the terrible knowledge of what they had seen and walked away from ... One result of this was that the men who had actually lived through Gallipoli and the trenches did not wri ..." |
 | | The Complete Stories(1st Edition) by David Malouf Hardcover, 528 Pages, Published 2007 by Pantheon ISBN-13: 978-0-375-42497-7, ISBN: 0-375-42497-0 "From the internationally acclaimed Australian writer: a single volume gathering a brilliant new collection of his short fiction, Every Move You Make, and all of his previously published stories.In the heretofore unpublished Every Move You Make: 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, whol ..." |
 | | Remembering Babylon(Reprint) A Novel by David Malouf Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 1994 by Vintage ISBN-13: 978-0-679-74951-6, ISBN: 0-679-74951-9 "In Remembering Babylon David Malouf gives us a rich and compelling novel, in language of astonishing poise and resonance, about the settling of the continent down under, Australia, and the vicissitudes of first contact with the unknown. In the mid-1840s a thirteen-year-old cabin boy, Gemmy Fairley, is cast ashore from a British shipwreck onto the Queensland coast, and is taken in by aborigines. Sixteen years later, three children from a ..." |
 | | Remembering Babylon(1st Edition) by David Malouf, Malout David Hardcover, 200 Pages, Published 1993 by London Limited Edition ISBN-13: 978-0-7011-5883-5, ISBN: 0-7011-5883-2 |
 | | Little Books on Big Themes Ser. On Experience by David Malouf Hardcover, 96 Pages, Published 2008 by Melbourne University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-522-85536-4, ISBN: 0-522-85536-9 "Australia's much loved author David Malouf presents a dazzling and illuminating personal essay on the power of imagination--and its effects on the life of a writer--in this first installment of a collectible new series. Beautifully packaged as a pocket-sized keepsake, this treasurable approach salvages a popular writer's inner philosophy from the disposability of journals and magazine columns for the sake of his fans and lovers of esote ..." |
 | | Earth Hour by David Malouf Hardcover, 96 Pages, Published 2014 by University Of Queensland Press ISBN-13: 978-0-7022-5013-2, ISBN: 0-7022-5013-9 "A breathtaking new volume of poetry from an Australian literary icon, David Malouf’s first full volume of poetry since Typewriter Music once again shows us why he is one of Australia’s most enduring and respected writers. Earth Hour comes to rest at the perfect, still moment of “silence, following talk” after its exploration of memory, imagination, and mortality. With elegance and wit, these poems move from profound depths to whimsy and ..." |
 | | Remembering Babylon by David Malouf Paperback, 192 Pages, Published 2014 by Vintage Classics ISBN-13: 978-0-09-958973-0, ISBN: 0-09-958973-7 "A searing and magnificent picture of Australia at the moment of its foundation, with early settlers staking out their small patch of land and terrified by the harsh and alien continent. Focussing on the hostility between the early British inhabitants and the native Aborigines, Remembering Bablyon tells the tragic and compelling story of a boy who finds himself caught between the two worlds. Shot through with humour, and poetic intensity ..." |
 | | Ransom(1st Edition) by David Malouf Hardcover, 240 Pages, Published 2010 by Chatto & Windus International Edition ISBN-13: 978-0-7011-8415-5, ISBN: 0-7011-8415-9 "A brilliant Homeric fable in miniature for our times -- a lyrical and surprising reworking of the story of the Trojan war by an acclaimed international writer.What happens when a young prince falls in battle and his body is spirited away to be desecrated and dishonoured? His death is the battle price of another young man's death, but what price dishonour and a father's grief? In this exquisite gem of a novel, David Malouf shines new lig ..." |
 | | Ransom by David Malouf Paperback, 240 Pages, Published 2010 by Vintage Books International Edition ISBN-13: 978-0-09-953952-0, ISBN: 0-09-953952-7 "A brilliant Homeric fable in miniature for our times -- a lyrical and surprising reworking of the story of the Trojan war by an acclaimed international writer.What happens when a young prince falls in battle and his body is spirited away to be desecrated and dishonoured? His death is the battle price of another young man's death, but what price dishonour and a father's grief? In this exquisite gem of a novel, David Malouf shines new lig ..." |
 | | Ransom(1st Edition) A Novel by David Malouf Hardcover, 224 Pages, Published 2010 by Pantheon Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-0-307-37877-4, ISBN: 0-307-37877-2 "In his first novel in more than a decade, David Malouf—arguably Australia’s greatest living writer—gives us a stirring reimagination of one of the most famous passages in all of literature: Achilles’ rageful slaughter and desecration of Hector, and Priam’s attempt to ransom his son’s body in Homer’s The Iliad. A moving novel of suffering, sorrow and redemption, Ransom tells the story of the relationship between two grieving men at war: ..." |
 | | Remembering Babylon(Updated) by David Malouf Paperback, 182 Pages, Published 2006 by Vintage Books ISBN-13: 978-0-09-930242-1, ISBN: 0-09-930242-X "A searing and magnificent picture of Australia at the moment of its foundation, with early settlers staking out their small patch of land and terrified by the harsh and alien continent. Focussing on the hostility between the early British inhabitants and the native Aborigines. Remembering Bablyon tells the tragic and compelling story of a boy who finds himself caught between the two worlds. Shot through with humour, and written with the ..." |
 | | Dream Stuff Stories by David Malouf Paperback, 208 Pages, Published 2001 by Vintage Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-0-375-72449-7, ISBN: 0-375-72449-4 "Here are nine haunting stories from the award-winning author of Remembering Babylon, in which history and geography, as well as the past and the present, combine and often collide, illuminating the landscape and revealing the character of Australia.An eleven-year-old boy sees his father in his own elongated shadow only to realize that he will not return from the war. In a parting moment, a young woman hired to “marry” vacationing soldie ..." |
 | | The Great World(Reprint) A novel (Vintage International) by David Malouf Paperback, 340 Pages, Published 1993 by Vintage ISBN-13: 978-0-679-74836-6, ISBN: 0-679-74836-9 "The Great World is a remarkable novel of self-knowledge and of fall from innocence, of survival and witness. Absorbed by the twentieth-century history of Australian life, the novel focuses on the unlikely friendship of two men who meet as POWs of the Japanese during WWII: Digger Keen, and Vic Curran. For both men, war was supposed to be a testing ground of masculine and nationalist virtue. Instead, it becomes an ordeal that lays bare th ..." |
 | | Dream Stuff(Updated) (New edition) by David Malouf Paperback, 240 Pages, Published 2001 by Vintage ISBN-13: 978-0-09-928990-6, ISBN: 0-09-928990-3 "From the image of a small boy entranced by his mother's GI Escort, yet still hoping for the return of a 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 sharp intensity the memories and events that make a man. These powerfully vivid stories range over more than a century of Australian life, from green tropical lushness t ..." |
 | | Antipodes(Updated) by David Malouf Paperback, 160 Pages, Published 1999 by Vintage Import ISBN-13: 978-0-09-927379-0, ISBN: 0-09-927379-9 "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 ..." |
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