The Conversations At Curlow Creek (Paperback, Reissue)

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)

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.

General

Imprint:	Vintage
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	June 1997
Authors:	David Malouf
Dimensions:	198 x 129 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - B-format
Pages:	272
Edition:	Reissue
ISBN-13:	978-0-09-974401-6
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction Books > Fiction > Genre fiction > Historical fiction
LSN:	0-09-974401-5
Barcode:	9780099744016

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