What ensues is a luminous encounter between civilization and nature, as enacted by a poet who once cataloged the treacheries of love and a boy who slowly learns how to give it."-BOOK JACKET. But then he becomes the guardian of a still more savage creature, a feral child who has grown up among deer. "Marooned on the edge of the known world, exiled from his native tongue, Ovid depends on the kindness of barbarians who impale their dead and converse with the spirit world. An Imaginary Life Paperback by David Malouf (Author) 162 ratings See all formats and editions Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Hardcover 5.25 4 Used from 5.25 1 Collectible from 59.95 Paperback 14.78 82 Used from 1.35 20 New from 10.49 3 Collectible from 12.85 MP3 CD 18.71 7 New from 18. From these sparse facts, one of our most distinguished novelists has fashioned an audacious and supremely moving work of fiction."-BOOK JACKET. "In the first century A.D., Publius Ovidius Naso, the most urbane and irreverent poet of imperial Rome, was banished to a remote village on the edge of the Black Sea. His book embodies an original and daring idea: He has determined to put the author. An imaginary life : a novel / by David Malouf Book Bib ID Malouf is an Australian poet, a man whose country embraces, like Ovids, both cosmopolites and aborigines.
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