Fly Away Peter (Paperback, 1st Vintage international ed)

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.

General

Imprint:	Random House
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Vintage International
Release date:	August 2003
First published:	August 2003
Authors:	David Malouf
Dimensions:	217 x 141 x 12mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	134
Edition:	1st Vintage international ed
ISBN-13:	978-0-679-77670-3
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction
LSN:	0-679-77670-2
Barcode:	9780679776703

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