IT is the desolateness of this place that day after day fills my mind with its perspectives. A line of cliffs, oblique against the sky, and the sea leaden beyond. To the west and south, mountains, heaped under cloud. To the north, beyond the marshy river mouth, empty grasslands, rolling level to the pole.
FIRST VINTAGE INTERNATIONAL EDITION, JUNE 1996
Copyright 1978 by David Malouf
All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada, Limited, Toronto. Originally published in hardcover by George Braziller, Inc., New York, in 1978.
Printed in the United States of America
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An Imaginary Life - Opening
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