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  • Author:agent David Malouf http://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/poets/malouf-david
Issue Details: First known date: 2006... 2006 Every Move You Make
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'Bookish boys and taciturn men, strong women and wayward sons, fathers and daughters, lovers and husbands, a composer and his muse, a builder-architect and his legacy - here are their stories, whole lives brought vividly into focus and so powerfully rooted in the landscape that you can almost feel the heat and the dust. His canvas is the vast Australian continent from the mysterious, glittering Valley of Lagoons behind the Great Divide in Far North Queensland, to bohemian Balmain and the Centre at Uluru, but always there are enticing glimpses of a world beyond, and the stories are tender, subtle, unsettlingly intimate. A young man going off to war tries to make sense of his place in the world he is leaving; a composer's life plays itself out as a complex domestic cantata; an accident on a hunting trip speaks volumes, which its inarticulate victim never could; and, in the funniest, most surprising story of all, a down-to-earth woman stubbornly tries to keep her feet on the ground at Ayers Rock. Malouf's men and women are together but curiously alone, looking for something they seem to have missed, or missed out on, in life, puzzling over the space they'll leave behind when the waters close over them...'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

Notes

  • Epigraph: When I consider the brevity of my life, swallowed up as it is in the eternity that precedes and will follow it, the tiny space I occupy and what is visible to me...- Pascal, Pensees.

Contents

* Contents derived from the Sydney, New South Wales,:Chatto and Windus , 2006 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
The Valley of Lagoons, David Malouf , single work short story (p. 1-59)
Every Move You Make, David Malouf , single work short story (p. 61-88)
War Baby, David Malouf , single work short story (p. 89-133)
Towards Midnight, David Malouf , single work short story (p. 135-149)
Elsewhere, David Malouf , single work short story
'When Andy, a down-to-earth miner, drives to Sydney for his bohemian sister-in-law's funeral, a new world opens up to him.' - (Journeys, p.61)
(p. 151-168)
Mrs Porter and the Rock, David Malouf , single work short story (p. 169-209)
The Domestic Cantata, David Malouf , single work short story (p. 211-244)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

Alternative title: Verso mezzanotte
Language: Italian
    • Milan,
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      Italy,
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      Western Europe, Europe,
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      Frassinelli ,
      2008 .
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      Extent: 270p.p.
      ISBN: 9788876848537, 8876848533

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Works about this Work

What I’m Reading Patrick Allington , 2013 single work
— Appears in: Meanjin Online 2013;
Charismatic Masculinity in David Malouf's Fiction Don Randall , 2010 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , May vol. 25 no. 1 2010; (p. 71-81)
This examination of charismatic masculinity and the representation of gender in Malouf's fiction concentrates on the short story collection Every Move You Make.
David Malouf Margaret Throsby (interviewer), 2008 single work interview
— Appears in: Talking with Margaret Throsby 2008; (p. 228-243)
[Review] Every Move You Make Maggie Ball , 2007 single work review
— Appears in: M/C Reviews , April 2007;

— Review of Every Move You Make David Malouf , 2006 selected work short story
Malouf's New Collection Meditates on Life and Loss Nicholas Dunlop , 2007 single work review
— Appears in: Antipodes , June vol. 21 no. 1 2007; (p. 87)

— Review of Every Move You Make David Malouf , 2006 selected work short story
Hauntingly Real Stories Offer Gratifying Reading Diane Stubbings , 2006 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 30 September 2006; (p. 13)

— Review of Every Move You Make David Malouf , 2006 selected work short story
A Master of Every Move He Makes Peter Craven , 2006 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 7 October 2006; (p. 25)

— Review of Every Move You Make David Malouf , 2006 selected work short story
A Worthy Successor to White A. P. Riemer , 2006 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 7-8 October 2006; (p. 32-33)

— Review of Every Move You Make David Malouf , 2006 selected work short story
Malouf's Madeleines James Ley , 2006 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , October no. 285 2006; (p. 6-7)

— Review of Every Move You Make David Malouf , 2006 selected work short story
Mystery Achievement Peter Pierce , 2006 single work review
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 17 October vol. 124 no. 6542 2006; (p. 68-69)

— Review of Every Move You Make David Malouf , 2006 selected work short story
An Intimate Relationship Diane Stubbings , 2006 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 2 September 2006; (p. 11-12)
An Imaginative Life Rosemary Neill , 2006 single work biography
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 30 September - 1 October 2006; (p. 4-5)
The Edge of Darkness Angela Bennie , 2006 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Age , 30 September 2006; (p. 24-25)
A Private Writer Chris Brice , 2006 single work column
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 14 October 2006; (p. 13)
The Absolute Precariousness of Every Moment Tom Adair , 2007 single work column
— Appears in: The Daily Telegraph , 10 February 2007; (p. 13)
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