| 词条 | The Conversations at Curlow Creek |
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| name = The Conversations at Curlow Creek | title_orig = | translator = | image = File:TheConversationsAtCurlowCreek.jpg | caption = First edition | author = David Malouf | illustrator = | cover_artist = | country = Australia | language = English | series = | genre = | publisher = Chatto and Windus, London, England | release_date = 1996 | english_release_date = | media_type = Print (Hardback & Paperback) | pages = 214 pp | isbn = 0701165715 | oclc= 35721093 | preceded_by = Remembering Babylon | followed_by = }} The Conversations at Curlow Creek is a historical novel written by the prominent Australian author David Malouf. It was first published in 1996 by the Random House publishing group. Plot summaryThe story takes place in 1827 on an isolated farm at the fictional locality of Curlow Creek in the mountains of the colony of New South Wales. The two main characters are Michael Adair, an Irish-born officer in the colonial mounted troopers, and Daniel Carney, an Irish escapee and bushranger. Adair had been dispatched from Sydney to oversee Carney's hanging and he arrives at Carney's temporary prison—a stockman's hut—on the night before he is due to be executed. The narrative details conversations held by Adair and Carney throughout the cold night as they explore their shared Irish heritage. The novel is also peppered with Adair's reminiscences of his aristocratic childhood in County Galway. As the plot progresses, Adair develops sympathy for Carney despite his criminal past and impoverished background. The novel ends with Adair presumed to have let Carney escape into the bush—though as with many of David Malouf's novels, the ending is ambiguous and the reader does not know for sure the fate of the hero. Notes
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8 : 1996 Australian novels|Novels by David Malouf|Australian historical novels|1827 in fiction|Novels set in New South Wales|Novels set in Ireland|Chatto & Windus books|County Galway |
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