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The Great World

By David Malouf

The Great World Contemporary literature

The Great World

By David Malouf

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The Great World is a remarkable novel of self-knowledge and of fall from innocence, of survival and witness. Absorbed by the twentieth-century history of Australian life, the novel focuses on the unlikely friendship of two men who meet as POWs of the Japanese during WWII: Digger Keen, and Vic Curran. For both men, war was supposed to be a testing ground of masculine and nationalist virtue. Instead, it becomes an ordeal that lays bare the painful reality which lies behind a nation's myth of itself. "The rare serious novel that doesn't condescend to its characters, this book has a limpidity and an elliptical sense of time that save it from becoming a blockbuster-style epic-despite having some of that form's easy pleasures-and render it poetic."-The New Yorker
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
342
Release Date:
1993-09-28
Publication Date:
1993-09-01
Publisher:
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0679748369
ISBN13:
9780679748366
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
483 g
Height:
140 cm
Width:
216 cm
Thickness:
21 cm
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