In a world where even the smallest and most remote village is being terrorized by the monsters that stalk the night, there is a hamlet, prosperous and peaceful, where mortals and vampires have lived in harmony for years. It is there that seventeen-year-old Sheavil Schmidt has slept, neither waking n
Dream Stuff
β Scribed by David Malouf
- Book ID
- 111144051
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Year
- 2007
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 295 KB
- Series
- Vintage International
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780307425669
- ASIN
- B000XUDGB2
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β¦ Synopsis
Here are nine haunting stories from the award-winning author of Remembering Babylon, in which history and geography, as well as the past and the present, combine and often collide, illuminating the landscape and revealing the character of Australia.
An eleven-year-old boy sees his father in his own elongated shadow only to realize that he will not return from the war. In a parting moment, a young woman hired to βmarryβ vacationing soldiers, grasps the weight of the word βwoe.β When a failing farmer senselessly murders a wandering aborigine, he imperils his son but discovers in the spring of sympathy that follows the power to influence others. Wise and moving, startling and lyrical,Dream Stuff reverberates with the unpredictability of human experience, revealing people who are shaped by the mysterious rhythms of nature as well as the ghosts of their own pasts.
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