Harland's Half Acre - (Vintage International) by David Malouf (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>Born on a poor dairy farm in Queensland, Frank Harland's life is centered 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. <p/> <i>Harland's Half Acre </i>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.<p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br>This is a haunting portrait of an Australian artist, a man who is at once a genuine visionary and a flawed savior to his disintegrating family.<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>David Malouf</b> is the author of eleven novels, as well as bountiful collections of stories, poetry, and opera libretti. He has won the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, the <i>Los Angeles Times</i> Book Award, the Prix Femina Étranger, and the Australia-Asia Literary Award; he has also been short-listed for the Man Booker Prize. He lives in Australia.
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