I just bought Ransom yesterday. I haven't been this excited about a
new Australian novel for a while, but An Imaginary Life is one of
all-time favourite books.
xA
On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 11:51 AM, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> From today's The Australian online:
>
> IN Elma Crane's primary school class in Brisbane, some time during World War II,
> one little fellow sat up straight and attentive among his rowdy classmates.
>
> "I don't remember his academic work," Mrs Crane, 93, said yesterday, "but I
> remember David Malouf as the polite little boy who always sat right in the
> middle, always doing the right thing."
>
> She cannot recall the exact afternoon she took up a copy of Homer's Iliad and
> began to read to the fidgety class of nine-year-olds at West End Primary. It was
> a way to fill in the final hour of a wet afternoon, and the Iliad was somehow to
> hand. She knew it was the kind of "compelling story" children would respond to,
> full of adventure, mystery, action and power.
>
> Malouf remembers so well how galvanised he was by Elma, then Miss Findlay,
> reading out loud from the epic story about the Trojan war that he included a note
> about his teacher at the end of his new novel, Ransom.
>
> etc
>
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