Child's Play
  • Published: 5 February 1999
  • ISBN: 9780099273851
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 224
  • RRP: $29.99

Child's Play

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'Like the dreams that regularly perturb their characters, the short novel and the two stories gathered here are intensely enigmatic' - Times Literary Supplement

In the streets of an ordinary Italian town, the people go about their everyday lives. In an old apartment block above them, a young man pores over photographs and plans, dedicated to his life's most important project. Day by day, in his imagination, he is rehearsing for his greatest performance. Yet when his moment comes, nothing could have prepared him for what happens...
  • Published: 5 February 1999
  • ISBN: 9780099273851
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 224
  • RRP: $29.99
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About the author

David Malouf

David Malouf is the internationally acclaimed author of novels including Ransom, The Great World (winner of the Commonwealth Writers’ prize and the Prix Femina Etranger), Remembering Babylon (winner of the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award), An Imaginary Life, Conversations at Curlow Creek, Dream Stuff, Every Move You Make and his autobiographical classic 12 Edmondstone Street. His Collected Stories won the 2008 Australia-Asia Literary Award. His most recent books are A First Place and The Writing Life. He was born in 1934 and was brought up in Brisbane.

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Praise for Child's Play

One of the most effective and penetrating studies of being a fanatic

Financial Times

Written with the beautiful claity and sharp edges of a cut crystal

Sunday Telegraph

Malouf is a lyrical story-writer, making music of long, clause-enriched sentences, yet one of his strengths is his ability to manage contrasts

Sydney Morning Herald