Child's Play (Paperback)
| Author: David Malouf |
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Format: Paperback
Publisher: Random House Inc
ISBN-10: 0375701419
ISBN-13: 9780375701412
Sku: 30505596
Publish Date: 4/10/2007
Dimensions:
(in Inches) 8.25H x 5.25L x 0.5T
Pages:
160
Age Range:
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| In a sunlit piazza on an April morning, women throw buckets of water over the cobbles and men deliver trays of pastry to trattorie. In a barren room above, a fanatic watches, engaged in the details of his life's most important project: the assassination of one of Italy's most beloved men of letters. In this penetrating novella, David Malouf, the highly acclaimed Australian author and finalist for the Booker Prize, plumbs the darker uses of our passions. Weaving a dense tapestry of sensual observation and personal events of mythic importance, he re-creates the frighteningly fascinating mind of a madman poised at his moment of truth. Dazzling in its beauty, intensely enigmatic, Child's Play conjures the mystical rising and falling of fear and pathos, where human idiosyncrasy and the incantatory rhythms of life give way to mania. |
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A dramatic novella explores the dark side of passion as a madman plans his life's most important endeavor, to kill one of Italy's most beloved men of letters, in an intricately woven tapestry of fear, pathos, personal events, and erotic observation. Reprint. |
Annotation:
A novice terrorist makes himself ready to assassinate an author. Malouf uses temporal shifts to portray the terrorist's view of his act.
A novice terrorist makes himself ready to assassinate an author. Malouf uses temporal shifts to portray the terrorist's view of his act.
Author Bio
David Malouf
Born and reared in Australia, Malouf moved to Italy and has written both about Europe and Australia. His work is known primarily for lush descriptions of nature and a blending of time periods within a narrative. He has taught at various Australian universities, and has won numerous awards for his fiction.
Praise
Washington Post
"Already [the main character] sees the photographs of the piazza where the assassination will take place as those of a historic site; he imagines it in newsprint and news photograph, media which distort and deaden an event but also in some ways create it; he sees himself as the hand of fate toward which a life's work has been leading, as a figure in the writer's biography....Malouf is something of a primitive narrator, rough around the edges, but he is also a deeply serious writer, not to be taken up lightly...[and] a genuine artist." - David Guy 05/02/1982 Times Literary Supplement
"[T]he world ?Child's Play' projects is one where details have a hallucinatory vividness and patterns stand out with stark clarity: only significance remains creepily opaque." - Peter Kemp 1982
"Already [the main character] sees the photographs of the piazza where the assassination will take place as those of a historic site; he imagines it in newsprint and news photograph, media which distort and deaden an event but also in some ways create it; he sees himself as the hand of fate toward which a life's work has been leading, as a figure in the writer's biography....Malouf is something of a primitive narrator, rough around the edges, but he is also a deeply serious writer, not to be taken up lightly...[and] a genuine artist." - David Guy 05/02/1982 Times Literary Supplement
"[T]he world ?Child's Play' projects is one where details have a hallucinatory vividness and patterns stand out with stark clarity: only significance remains creepily opaque." - Peter Kemp 1982
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