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An Imaginary Life
by David Malouf
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- Paperback
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About This Item
London: Random House, 2012. Australian Author. Used. 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.
Synopsis
An Imaginary Life is a 1978 novella written by David Malouf. It tells the story of the Roman poet Ovid, during his exile in Tomis. Whilst there, Ovid lives with the natives, although he doesn't understand their language; and forms a bond with a wild boy who is found after having been brought up by wolves. The relationship between Ovid and the boy, at first one of protector and protected, becomes an alliance between two people in a foreign land.
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- Petes Loved Books
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- Title
- An Imaginary Life
- Author
- David Malouf
- Format/Binding
- Australian Author
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2012
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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