Name: The Great World (Vintage International)
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Author: David Malouf
ISBN: 9780679748366

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Physical Book

Publisher

Random House Inc

Author

David Malouf

Year

1993

Language

English

Pages

340

Format

Paperback

Weight

0.65

ISBN

0679748369

ISBN13

9780679748366

Synopsis "The Great World (Vintage International) "

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

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