![]() ![]() ![]() At the centre of this meticulously well-told tale is Ovid's encounter with a wild boy, brought up among the deer in the snow. ![]() David Malouf, a spare and delicate writer, presents here the first-person story of the Roman poet Ovid's exile in the distant, frosty wastes.hypnotic in its gripping accumulation of detail, its gradual unwrapping of human reality amid what at first seems a barbarian and unknowable environment. This is a scarce edition of the author's second book. Book has a slightly dusty top edge but no other wear. An Imaginary Life interweaves the imagined world of Maloufs writing with the reality of places and experiences that have inspired him. Very attractive marbled blue and yellow wraps and laid in 'etching by Rembrandt 1646'. Dark blue boards with bordered gilt titles to the spine. First Edition/First Printing (1 in number line on copyright page). First printing in this 'collected edition'. The novel not only represents the Australian emptiness and its social life but also reflects the religious intensity and metaphysical strain of his characterization, marked by allegorical and symbolical motifs. ![]()
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