| Fly Away Peter Contributor(s): Malouf, David (Author) |
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ISBN: 0679776702 ISBN-13: 9780679776703 Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group OUR PRICE: $19.95 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 1998 Annotation: 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 discard the differences of personality and class to enter a partnership of wonder. But when war breaks out in Europe, Jim and Ashley are drawn into obscene enterprise of the trenches, where death falls from the sky and burrows out of the earth. In telling the story of these men, Fly Away Peter combines overwhelmingly sensual imagery with an unblinking consciousness of the worst that history can inflict to produce a novel of phosphorescent beauty. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 98011054 |
| Lexile Measure: 1110 |
| Physical Information: 0.47" H x 5.56" W x 8.54" (0.45 lbs) 144 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: With the same overwhelmingly sensual imagery and historical immediacy that have made his one of Australia's most honored novelists -- and brought him the prestigious IMPAC Award -- David Malouf conjures up a single still moment on the edge of the twentieth century, in which two unlikely people share a friendship. What draws the privileged Ashley Crowther and the untutored Jim Saddler together is the swampland that Ashley is managing for his father and that Jim knows better than any man. He introduces his new employer to the ways of kingfishers and ibis, and the lines of class and education dissolve. But when war breaks out in Europe. Jim and Ashley are drawn into the trenches. In telling the story of what they witness and endure -- in showing how each man struggles to retain the world and self he has left and may never see again -- Malouf produces a work of lingering beauty and emotional resonance. |