Buy this book on-line MALOUF,DAVID: : REMEMBERING BABYLONLONDON.CHATTO & WINDUS,1993. ISBN 0701158832.
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backstrip and immaculate,plain pale grey eps.UK,8vo HB +dw/dj,1st edn,1-200pp [paginated] includes 20 chapters,plus [unpaginated]half-title+title pages, prose (John Clare)+poetry (William Blake) extract quotation page and author's explanatory note to last page.
'In the mid-1840s a thirteen year old boy,Gemmy Fairly,is cast ashore in the far north of Australia and taken in by aborigines.Sixteen years
later,when settlers reach the area, he moves back into the world of Europeans,men and women who are staking out their small patch of home in an alien place,hopeful and yet terrified of what it might do to
them.Gemmy stands as a different kind of challenge,as a force which both fascinates and repels.And Gemmy
himself finds his own whiteness as unsettling in this new world as the knowledge he brings with him of the savage,the aboriginal.
Internationally recognised as one of Australia's finest contemporary writers,having written novels -'Johnno','An Imaginary Life',
'Harland's Half Acre' and 'The Great
World',an autobiography,some poetry and a libretto ''Baa Baa Black Sheep'.The author won City of Dublin
International IMPAC Literary Award with this novel.It also won the NSW Premier's Prize for Fiction and went
on to win the Los Angeles Times Award for Fiction later in 1994 as well as being shortlisted for the Miles Franklin and (1993) Booker awards. Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of MALOUF,DAVID: : REMEMBERING BABYLON. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including libri antichi, fine bindings, incunabula, livres illustrées and rare books. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |