Harland's Half Acre
  • Published: 5 February 1999
  • ISBN: 9780099273837
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 240
  • RRP: $29.99

Harland's Half Acre

from the award-winning author of Remembering Babylon, Ransom and Johnno

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'David Malouf is a fine writer - his novels conjure up a whole society and its complex past' - Sunday Telegraph

Born on a poor dairy farm in Queensland, Frank Harland's life is centred on his great artistic gift, his passionate love for his father and four brothers and his need to repossess, through a patch of land, his family's past. The story spans Frank's life; from before the First World War, through years as a swaggie in the Great Depression and Brisbane in the forties, to his retirement to a patch of Australian scrub where he at last takes possession of his dream.

Harland's Half Acre tells how a man sets out to recover the land his ancestors discovered and then lost and how, in fulfilment, this vision becomes a new reality.
  • Published: 5 February 1999
  • ISBN: 9780099273837
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 240
  • 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 Harland's Half Acre

A powerful, impressive book

Observer

David Malouf is one of Australia's most esteemed writers... Malouf often works on a broad canvas, portraying places, people and events in the panoramic context of history... [and] evoking the elusive interior worlds of his characters' perceptions

Los Angeles Times

[A] remarkable book, in which the realist and the dreamer are finally and excitingly fused

New York Times

A meditation, in the form of a novel, on the connection between life and art, by a talented Australian writer

Washington Post