The Complete Stories - Hardcover

"Malouf is one of our finest writers, a poet with an ear for language that transforms an interesting concept into a classic meditation on the role of chance in each of our lives."
--"San Francisco Chronicle"
"A richly imagistic writer, philosophical and literary in the best sense."
--"Washington Post Book World
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"A first-rate writer-a sensitive historian of the spirit."
--"Wall Street Journal
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"A storyteller of achievement, for whom simple things gracefully become totems for deeper thought."
--"Philadelphia Inquirer
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"Writing such as this . . . is rare. It is to be cherished."
--"USA Today
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"Brilliant. . . . A writer of enormous seriousness and compassion." --"Los Angeles Times""Wonderful. . . . A delight. . . . [Malouf is] one of the best writers in the world. . . This man is a master in our language."--"The Portland Oregonian""Beautiful, haunting, harsh, these are tales of men and women, girls and boys all coming of age at every age through the their connection to the land and each other."--"The Baltimore Sun""Humorous and sobering, sensitive and brutal, cosmopolitan and regional. . . . Belongs on the same shelf with the short fiction of John Cheever, Eudora Welty, Alice Munro. These are tales to be read and reread."--"The Seattle Times "

David Malouf is the author of ten novels and six volumes of poetry. His novel The Great World was awarded both the COmmonwelath Prize and the Prix Femina Étranger, and Remembering Babylon was short-listed for the Booker Prize. He has also received the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Award. He lives in Australia.