Conversations at Curlow Creek Author:David Malouf The year is 1827. In a remote hut on the high planes of New South Wales, two strangers spend the night in talk. One, Carney, an illiterate Irishman, ex-convict and bushranger, is to be hanged at dawn. The other, Adair, is the police officer who has been sent to supervise the hanging. As the night wears on, the two men sha... more »re memories and uncover unlikely connections - from the west of Ireland to Australia. Outside the hut, Adair's troopers wait uneasily for morning to come.
"A strange beautiful novel . . . It represents a deepening of Malouf's style, offering the reader greater intensity and confirming Malouf's position as one of the most exciting and uncompromising writers now producing novels in English." ~ Colm Toibin
"A gentle, almost elegiac portrait of a man caught and tested by circumstances. It also confirms Malouf's status as one of the finest contemporary writers." ~ Irish Times« less