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This is a strange grab bag of Malouf's non-fiction writing, released to mark his 80th birthday. Some of the pieces are slight, and the core material is really his Boyer lectures and his Quarterly Essay, both of which dwell on the history and character of Australia. Malouf is a thoughtful, exacting writer, combining lyrical, personal touches with incisive history and reasonably clear arguments, but the essays themselves had a consistent flaw. Malouf has a kind of rosy view of Australia and its Br
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Feb 04, 2014
Shelleyrae at Book'd Out
marked it as to-read
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Stuart Barnes
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