Dream Stuff: Stories (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780375724497)

Here are nine haunting stories from the award-winning author of Remembering Babylon, in which history and geography, as well as the past and the present, combine and often collide, illuminating the landscape and revealing the character of Australia.

An eleven-year-old boy sees his father in his own elongated shadow only to realize that he will not return from the war. In a parting moment, a young woman hired to "marry" vacationing soldiers, grasps the weight of the word "woe." When a failing farmer senselessly murders a wandering aborigine, he imperils his son but discovers in the spring of sympathy that follows the power to influence others. Wise and moving, startling and lyrical, Dream Stuff reverberates with the unpredictability of human experience, revealing people who are shaped by the mysterious rhythms of nature as well as the ghosts of their own pasts.

Author: David Malouf
ISBN-10: 0375724494
ISBN-13: 9780375724497
Publisher: Vintage
Language: English
Published: 12/11/2001
Pages: 208
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.53lbs
Size: 8.03h x 5.22w x 0.64d

Review Citation(s):
New York Times 12/23/2001 pg. 16