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Fly Away Peter is an Australian novel set before and during the First World War. The first part of the novel is set on the Queensland Gold Coast, and the second part on the Western Front.
Jan 1, 1982 · Fly Away Peter is the story of Jim Saddler, an avid birdwatcher living in Queensland in the early 1900s. When the war arrives in 1914, he enlists, and, travelling to France, becomes a bitter soldier fighting a losing war, while musing on the meaning of life.
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In Fly Away Peter, Jim Saddler fights in World War I. Given that he hails from Australia and that all the other soldiers in his company are his countrymen, he’s presumably a member of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC).
Jan 22, 2012 · Fly Away Peter, his third novel, netted him The Age Book of the Year in 1982 and the Australian Literature Society Gold Medal in 1983. A Great War novel. It is a truly beautiful and devastating story set before and during the Great War.
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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Fly Away Peter. David Malouf. Vintage, 1999 - Fiction - 134 pages. For three very different people brought together by their love for birds, life on the Queensland coast in 1914 is the timeless...
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Fly Away Peter. David Malouf. Chatto & Windus, 1982 - Fiction - 134 pages. In this shimmering work of imagination, one of Australia's most honored writers conjures a single still moment on the edge of the 20th century in which two unlikely people share a friendship.
Learn More. For three very different people brought together by their love for birds, life on the Queensland coast in 1914 is the timeless and idyllic world of sandpipers, ibises and kingfishers. In another hemisphere civilization rushes headlong into a brutal conflict.
