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Short Stories
by Ihab Hassan
April 2000, no. 219

Dream Stuff by David Malouf

Chatto & Windus, $35.00 hb, 185 pp

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This collection is well named: dreams drive its narratives. Dreams or something like dreams – ghosts, memories, shadowy gleams. We are always close to the ‘mystery of suspended expectation’, as Malouf puts it in the title story, but never quite penetrate it. In dreams, you might say, begin responsibilities – that’s Yeats – and yes, flashes of knowledge, obscure reconciliations.

 


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Dream Stuff by David Malouf

Chatto & Windus, $35.00 hb, 185 pp

ABR receives a commission on items purchased through this link. All ABR reviews are fully independent.


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