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Title: Dream Stuff : Stories by David Malouf ISBN: 0-375-72449-4 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 11 December, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.62 (8 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: What can I say?
Comment: This is perhaps one of the most phenomenal books I've read in the past year. Malouf's prose is intricate, flowing, and beautiful, and I found myself taking more time than usual after each story to ponder meanings and significances. Malouf is one of few writers to have completely mastered both style and content; his results are breathtaking. A must read.
Rating: 5
Summary: the poetry of prose
Comment: David Malouf has written books that I return to and return to again for the language that is wonderful and the sense of place - Australia from its settlers' beginnings to modern time - that tells more about the uniqueness of that continent than a thousand pictures. One of the stories in this collection, Jacko's Reach is one of the most beautifully written evocations of the enduring quality of memory and wild places, full of mystery, that I have ever read. These are wonderful stories.
Rating: 4
Summary: Great Talent With Short Stories
Comment: I have read and commented upon seven of the nine novels that David Malouf has written. His novels are not lengthy but they all share the great talent this writer has. "Dream Stuff", is a collection of nine short stories that appear together for the first time. Just as he has done many times over with his novels, he presents a series of shorter works that are uniformly very good, and some that are excellent.
There are two stories that were of great interest as the Author chose children to narrate the tale. At the age of 9 in, "Closer", a young girl is the hostess for the story, and in, "Blacksoil Country", our young male guide is but twelve. The choice of youth for narrators was interesting as the stories they shared were those of adult situations, feelings and actions. The word precocious would not accurately measure the insight these children have.
All of the stories tend toward the darker spectrums of Human Nature. Even when the tale may just be deeply sad I believe it still shows the more negative aspects of people and Family. There is one story that stands out for its absolute brutality. It is particularly savage as it is unexpected, and random in its violence. Unfortunately it reflects what we too often read of in the news.
I highly recommend the work of this Author. I have never picked up one of his works and come away with anything less than great admiration for his skill.
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Title: Remembering Babylon : A Novel by David Malouf ISBN: 0679749519 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 04 October, 1994 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: An Imaginary Life by David Malouf ISBN: 0679767932 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 28 May, 1996 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: My Invented Country : A Nostalgic Journey Through Chile by Isabel Allende ISBN: 006054564X Publisher: HarperCollins Pub. Date: 27 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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