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'Bookish boys and taciturn men, strong women and wayward sons, fathers and daughters, lovers and husbands, a composer and his muse, a builder-architect and his legacy - here are their stories, whole lives brought vividly into focus and so powerfully rooted in the landscape that you can almost feel the heat and the dust. His canvas is the vast Australian continent from the mysterious, glittering Valley of Lagoons behind the Great Divide in Far North Queensland, to bohemian Balmain and the Centre at Uluru, but always there are enticing glimpses of a world beyond, and the stories are tender, subtle, unsettlingly intimate. A young man going off to war tries to make sense of his place in the world he is leaving; a composer's life plays itself out as a complex domestic cantata; an accident on a hunting trip speaks volumes, which its inarticulate victim never could; and, in the funniest, most surprising story of all, a down-to-earth woman stubbornly tries to keep her feet on the ground at Ayers Rock. Malouf's men and women are together but curiously alone, looking for something they seem to have missed, or missed out on, in life, puzzling over the space they'll leave behind when the waters close over them...'
Source: Publisher's blurb.
Notes
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Epigraph: When I consider the brevity of my life, swallowed up as it is in the eternity that precedes and will follow it, the tiny space I occupy and what is visible to me...- Pascal, Pensees.
Contents
- The Valley of Lagoons, single work short story (p. 1-59)
- Every Move You Make, single work short story (p. 61-88)
- War Baby, single work short story (p. 89-133)
- Towards Midnight, single work short story (p. 135-149)
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Elsewhere,
single work
short story
'When Andy, a down-to-earth miner, drives to Sydney for his bohemian sister-in-law's funeral, a new world opens up to him.' - (Journeys, p.61)
- Mrs Porter and the Rock, single work short story (p. 169-209)
- The Domestic Cantata, single work short story (p. 211-244)
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Other Formats
- Sound recording.
Works about this Work
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What I’m Reading
2013
single work
— Appears in: Meanjin Online 2013; -
Charismatic Masculinity in David Malouf's Fiction
2010
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , May vol. 25 no. 1 2010; (p. 71-81) This examination of charismatic masculinity and the representation of gender in Malouf's fiction concentrates on the short story collection Every Move You Make. -
David Malouf
Margaret Throsby
(interviewer),
2008
single work
interview
— Appears in: Talking with Margaret Throsby 2008; (p. 228-243) -
[Review] Every Move You Make
2007
single work
review
— Appears in: M/C Reviews , April 2007;
— Review of Every Move You Make 2006 selected work short story -
Malouf's New Collection Meditates on Life and Loss
2007
single work
review
— Appears in: Antipodes , June vol. 21 no. 1 2007; (p. 87)
— Review of Every Move You Make 2006 selected work short story
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Hauntingly Real Stories Offer Gratifying Reading
2006
single work
review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 30 September 2006; (p. 13)
— Review of Every Move You Make 2006 selected work short story -
A Master of Every Move He Makes
2006
single work
review
— Appears in: The Age , 7 October 2006; (p. 25)
— Review of Every Move You Make 2006 selected work short story -
A Worthy Successor to White
2006
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 7-8 October 2006; (p. 32-33)
— Review of Every Move You Make 2006 selected work short story -
Malouf's Madeleines
2006
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , October no. 285 2006; (p. 6-7)
— Review of Every Move You Make 2006 selected work short story -
Mystery Achievement
2006
single work
review
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 17 October vol. 124 no. 6542 2006; (p. 68-69)
— Review of Every Move You Make 2006 selected work short story -
An Intimate Relationship
2006
single work
criticism
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 2 September 2006; (p. 11-12) -
An Imaginative Life
2006
single work
biography
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 30 September - 1 October 2006; (p. 4-5) -
The Edge of Darkness
2006
single work
criticism
— Appears in: The Age , 30 September 2006; (p. 24-25) -
A Private Writer
2006
single work
column
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 14 October 2006; (p. 13) -
The Absolute Precariousness of Every Moment
2007
single work
column
— Appears in: The Daily Telegraph , 10 February 2007; (p. 13)
Awards
- 2007 shortlisted Australian Booksellers Association Awards — Booksellers Choice Award
- 2007 shortlisted Queensland Premier's Literary Awards — Best Fiction Book
- 2007 winner Queensland Premier's Literary Awards — Arts Queensland Steele Rudd Australian Short Story Award This award was known as the Steele Rudd Australian Short Story Award from 1988-2007.
- 2007 winner The Age Book of the Year Award — Fiction Prize
- 2007 shortlisted Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA) — Australian Literary Fiction Book of the Year