Johnno
from the award-winning author of Remembering Babylon, Ransom and An Imaginary Life
- Paperback
192 pages
- Release Date
1 September 2008
Summary
David Malouf’s first novel recreates the war-conscious forties, the pubs and brothels of the fifties, and the years away treading water overseas.
‘Despite Johnno’s assertion that Brisbane was absolutely the ugliest place in the world, I had the feelings as I walked across deserted intersections, past empty parks with their tropical trees all spiked and sharp-edged in the early sunlight, that it might even be beautiful …’
Dante and Johnno are unlikely childhood friends, growing…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780143180142 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0143180142 |
| Author: | David Malouf |
| Publisher: | Penguin Random House Australia |
| Imprint: | Penguin Random House Australia |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 192 |
| Release Date: | 1 September 2008 |
| Weight: | 172g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 128mm x 15mm |
| Series: | Modern Classics |
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About The Author
David Malouf
David Malouf is internationally recognised as one of the world’s finest and most versatile contemporary writers. Since his first collection of poetry in 1962, he has published novels, short stories, collections of poetry, opera libretti, a play and a volume of autobiography. His novels include An Imaginary Life, Harland’s Half Acre, The Conversations at Curlaw Creek, The Great World, winner of the Commonwealth Writers Prize and the Prix Femina Etranger in 1991, and Remembering Babylon, shortlisted for the 1993 Booker Prize and winner of the inaugural international IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. Born and brought up in Brisbane, David Malouf lives in Sydney.
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