First edition. 8vo. Pp. [iv], 185. Black cloth boards lettered in silver to spine; olive green endpapers. Wraparound dustwrapper reproducing a detail of Jean Chardin's painting "Soap Bubbles".
Signed by Author to title page.
Winner of the Lannan Literary Award for Fiction. Collection of nine short stories, ranging over more than a century of Australian life, six of which previously unpublished. Recipient of the 2000 Neustadt International Prize for Literature. His 1993 novel Remembering Babylon won the inaugural International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award in 1996. "Confirm[s] Malouf's stature as a writer of the very first order." –The Boston Book Review