Fly Away Peter

David Malouf

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Vintage
05 February 1999

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); First World War fiction; Historical fiction; Australian Fiction

A cast of wildly different characters, united by a love of birds, come together on the coast of Australia in 1914. Their avian idyll is soon disturbed as war rips through Europe, irrevocably changing and challenging their lives.

For three very different people brought together by their love for birds, life on the Queensland coast in 1914 is the timeless and idyllic world of sandpipers, ibises and kingfishers. In another hemisphere civilization rushes headlong into a brutal conflict. Life there is lived from moment to moment. Inevitably, the two young men - sanctuary owner and employee - are drawn to the war, and into the mud and horror of the trenches of Armentieres. Alone on the beach, their friend Imogen, the middle-aged wildlife photographer, must acknowledge for all three of them that the past cannot be held.

By: David Malouf
Imprint: Vintage
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 9mm
Weight: 117g
ISBN: 9780099273820
ISBN 10: 0099273829
Pages: 134
Publication Date: 05 February 1999
Recommended Age: From 0 years
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Reviews for Fly Away Peter

Malouf is subtle, lyric and insistent. His stories enter the memory and stay there. * Irish Times * Simply brilliant and naturalistically told * Guardian * The continuities of nature are set against the obscenities of war...to contruct a memorable book * Sunday Telegraph * The novel of a poet without a single trace of overwriting * Daily Telegraph *

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David Malouf

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