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Harland's Half Acre

David Malouf author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Vintage Publishing

Published:20th May '99

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'David Malouf is a fine writer - his novels conjure up a whole society and its complex past' - Sunday Telegraph

Born on a poor dairy farm in Queensland, Frank Harland's life is centred on his great artistic gift, his passionate love for his father and four brothers and his need to repossess, through a patch of land, his family's past.

Born on a poor dairy farm in Queensland, Frank Harland's life is centred on his great artistic gift, his passionate love for his father and four brothers and his need to repossess, through a patch of land, his family's past. The story spans Frank's life; from before the First World War, through years as a swaggie in the Great Depression and Brisbane in the forties, to his retirement to a patch of Australian scrub where he at last takes possession of his dream.

Harland's Half Acre tells how a man sets out to recover the land his ancestors discovered and then lost and how, in fulfilment, this vision becomes a new reality.

A powerful, impressive book * Observer *
David Malouf is one of Australia's most esteemed writers... Malouf often works on a broad canvas, portraying places, people and events in the panoramic context of history... [and] evoking the elusive interior worlds of his characters' perceptions * Los Angeles Times *
[A] remarkable book, in which the realist and the dreamer are finally and excitingly fused * New York Times *
A meditation, in the form of a novel, on the connection between life and art, by a talented Australian writer * Washington Post *

ISBN: 9780099273837

Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 15mm

Weight: 171g

240 pages