The Conversations At Curlow Creek

David Malouf

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Vintage
05 September 1997

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

'A strange, beautiful novel... It represents a deepening of Malouf's style, offering the reader greater intensity and confirming Malouf's position as one of the most exciting and uncompromising writers now producing novels in English' - Colm Toibin

The year is 1827, and in a remote hut on the high plains of New South Wales, two strangers spend the night in talk. One, Carney, an illiterate Irishman, ex-convict and bushranger, is to be hanged at dawn. The other, Adair, also Irish, is an officer of the police who has been sent to supervise the hanging. As the night wears on, the two discover unexpected connections between their lives, and learn new truths.

Outside the hut, Adair's troopers sit uneasily, reflecting on their own pasts and futures, waiting for the morning to come. With ironic humour and in prose of starkly evocative power, the novel moves between Australia and Ireland to explore questions of nature and justice, reason and un-reason, the workings of fate, and the small measure of freedom a man may claim in the face of death.

By: David Malouf
Imprint: Vintage
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 17mm
Weight: 192g
ISBN: 9780099744016
ISBN 10: 0099744015
Pages: 224
Publication Date: 05 September 1997
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Reviews for The Conversations At Curlow Creek

The author's strong narrative style drives this story of the entwined fates of an illiterate convict and the police officer sent to supervise his hanging in 19th-century New South Wales. The forces of hazard and chance are examined in finely wrought prose, and the locations in Australia and Ireland are memorably evoked. (Kirkus UK)