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The Conversations at Curlow Creek: A Novel (Paperback)
$13.01 - Save $1.98 (13%) - RRP $14.99 Free delivery worldwide (to United States and
all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 72 hours | |Short Description for The Conversations at Curlow CreekFrom the author of "Remembering Babylon"--a novel of mysterious power that explores the gulf between fate and justice, duty and compassion. In Australia in 1827, two men--an illiterate Irish convict, sentenced to hang at dawn and the soldier who must supervise the deed--talk through the night. Out of their conversations, Malouf creates what is at once a mystery and a poetic meditation on the theme
Full description- Publisher: Vintage Books
- Published: 12 January 1998
- Format: Paperback 233 pages
- See: Full bibliographic data
- Categories: Contemporary Fiction | Historical Fiction
- ISBN 13: 9780679779056 ISBN 10: 0679779051
- Sales rank: 228,165
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Full description for The Conversations at Curlow Creek
Set in Australia in 1827, "The Conversations at Curlow Creek" is an extraordinary exploration of nature and justice, of the workings of fate, of intimacy, compassion, and duty. Two men talk through the night - a convict waiting to be hanged at dawn and the officer in charge of the hanging - revealing their pasts, discovering unlikely connections between their lives. And in the precise, evocative language and with the acute perception we have come to expect from David Malouf, the conversation between these two dissimilar men goes far beyond the details of their lives to express both the isolation of the individual and the experiences, shared in silence, that unite us all.
