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David Malouf is hands down (in my humble opinion) Australia‘s greatest writer and although this one is not set in Oz, Malouf‘s beautiful prose is perfectly captured. An imaginary Ovid is exiled to the edge of the known world and he must discover the true meaning and power of language, identity and our spiritual relationship with the land! So many put the book down in awe moments! I first read this text in 1997 - it only gets better with age!

I keep all my assigned novels from college even if I think I'll never reread them, because that's the time in my life when my thinking was the most creative and having them around fuels my #imagination #letstravelaugust @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @OriginalCyn620

Based on Roger Rosenblatt's description, "An Imaginary Life" belongs at the top of the to-read stack. From the 1/10/16 NYTimes book review.