Dream Stuff

From the image of a small boy entranced by his mother's GI escort, yet still hoping for the return of his father 'missing in action', to the portrait of an adult writer trying to piece together a defining image of his late father, these outstanding stories conjure up with dazzling intensity the memories and events that make a man. Through the unreliable layers of family archaeology, they uncover earlier, vulnerable selves, moments of innocence or shame, and unfinished business, illuminated by shocking flashes of unpredictable violence and pain, or glints of sly humour. In the brilliant cornerstone story, the stuff of dreams is both real and imagined -rumoured fields of cannabis picked in secret by migrant workers, or a nightmare encounter on a dark Brisbane street. In 'Night Training' a military recruit is scarred by his own complicity in a bizarre nightly ritual; and in 'Sally's Story', a 'comfort' girl looks for comfort of her own. Here are men and women in search of connection, or equally wary of it - whether with each other or with past selves.

ISBN 0099289903   DEWEY edition DC21 ISBN13 9780099289906 (What's this?)   Pages 186 Publisher Vintage   Weight (grammes) 204 Imprint Vintage   Published in London Format Paperback   Height (mm) 200 Publication date 05 Apr 2001   Width (mm) 131 Non-book description B   Spine width (mm) 16 DEWEY 823   Academic level Tertiary education

"Confirm[s] Malouf's stature as a writer of the very first order."-"The Boston Book Review" "Recalls the best work of E. M. Forster and Virginia Woolf.... Carefully crafted."-"Los Angeles Times"

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