The Great World by David Malouf

Book Description

Secondhand. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges.

Every city, town and village has its memorial to war. Nowhere are these more eloquent than in Australia, generations whose young men have enlisted to fight other people's battles - from Gallipoli and the Somme to Malaya and Vietnam.

In The Great World, David Malouf gives a voice to that experience. But The Great World is more than a novel of war. Ranging over seventy years of Australian life, from Sydney's teeming King's Cross to the tranquil backwaters of the Hawkesbury River, it is a remarkable novel of self-knowledge and lost innocence, of survival and witness. (back cover)