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An Imaginary Life

An Imaginary Life | David Malouf

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In the first century AD, Publius Ovidius Naso, the most urbane and irreverant poet of imperial Rome, was banished to a remote village on the edge of the Black Sea. From these sparse facts, one of our most distinguished novelists has fashioned an audacious and supremely moving work of fiction. Marooned on the edge of the known world, exiled from his native tongue, Ovid depends on the kindness of barbarians who impate their dead and converse with the spirit world. But then he becomes the guardian of a still more savage creature, a feral child who has grown up among deer. What ensues is a luminous encounter between civilization and nature, as enacted by a poet who once catalogued the treacheries of love and a boy who slowly learns how to give it.

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David Malouf is hands down (in my humble opinion) Australia‘s greatest writer and although this one is not set in Oz, Malouf‘s beautiful prose is perfectly captured. An imaginary Ovid is exiled to the edge of the known world and he must discover the true meaning and power of language, identity and our spiritual relationship with the land! So many put the book down in awe moments! I first read this text in 1997 - it only gets better with age!

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An Imaginary Life | David Malouf

I keep all my assigned novels from college even if I think I'll never reread them, because that's the time in my life when my thinking was the most creative and having them around fuels my #imagination #letstravelaugust @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @OriginalCyn620

OriginalCyn620 Very cool! 😊 5y

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An Imaginary Life | David Malouf

Based on Roger Rosenblatt's description, "An Imaginary Life" belongs at the top of the to-read stack. From the 1/10/16 NYTimes book review.

Peterstraubnyc Me, too. I gotta check this out. 8y

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