by David Malouf · Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780679776703
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«Fly Away Peter» is the literary fiction novel by David Malouf, published by Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group in paperback (144 pages, in English).
At the dawn of the twentieth century, Ashley Crowther returns to Australia to manage his father's lands and meets Jim Saddler, a young woodcutter. Despite their class differences, they strike up a friendship. World War I takes them to the trenches in France, where they try to preserve the world they have left behind.
The novel was originally published in 1982 and received The Age Book of the Year that year. This 1998 edition belongs to the Vintage International collection.
For readers of literary and historical fiction interested in Australia and World War I.
David George Joseph Malouf was an Australian poet, novelist, short story writer, playwright and librettist. Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in London in 2008, Malouf lectured at both the University of Queensland and the University of Sydney. He also delivered the 1998 Boyer Lectures.
