Fly Away Peter

by David Malouf

This novel, which begins just before World War I, is about the unlikely friendship between two young men, one the son of a wealthy landowner, one a boy who grew up in the world of nature. When war is declared and they go off to France to fight, each tries to be true to his own values in the face of horror.

Available editions of Fly Away Peter

	9780679776703, Paperback, Vintage Books, 1998 $5.49 (Used - Good) Other copies of 9780679776703

	9780701126254, Book, Chatto & Windus, 1982 $30.00 (Near Fine) Other copies of 9780701126254

Publisher Notes

In this shimmering work of imagination, one of Australias most honored writers conjures a single still moment on the edge of the 20th century in which two unlikely people share a friendship. When Ashley Crowther returns to Australia to manage his fathers property, he discovers a timeless landscape of kingfishers and ibises; he also meets Jim Saddler, the young woodsman who becomes Ashley's guide to his inheritance. Together they discard the differences of personality and class to enter a partnership of wonder. But when war breaks out in Europe, Jim and Ashley are drawn into obscene enterprise of the trenches, where death falls from the sky and burrows out of the earth. In telling the story of these men, Fly Away Peter combines overwhelmingly sensual imagery with an unblinking consciousness of the worst that history can inflict to produce a novel of phosphorescent beauty.

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