Fly Away Peter is a 1982 novel by Australian author David Malouf.
Fly Away Peter won The Age Book of the Year award in 1982, and is often studied at senior level in Australian high schools.
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.
The novel relates highly to the theme of Adam and Eve, with the farm bei...
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Fly Away Peter is a 1982 novel by Australian author David Malouf.
Fly Away Peter won The Age Book of the Year award in 1982, and is often studied at senior level in Australian high schools.
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.
The novel relates highly to the theme of Adam and Eve, with the farm being the Garden of Eden due to its nature and wildlife. Jim relates to Adam, a peaceful man who wouldn't hurt anyone and Imogen is related to Eve.
The central character of the novel is Jim Saddler, a self-contained young man with a profound understanding of the bird life of an estuary near his home. Ashley Crowther has recently inherited the farm which includes the estuary; despite the divide of class and experience, the two young men form a close bond when Ashley offers Jim a job as a warden, recording the comings and goings of birds in their ...
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