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290 words, approx. 1 pages
 An Imaginary Life is a 1978 novella written by David Malouf. It tells the story of the Roman poet Ovid, during his exile in Tomis. Whilst there, Ovid lives with the natives, although he doesn't understand their language; and forms a bond with a wild boy... 
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 The News & Record (Piedmont Triad, NC) Walking off the imaginary football field.(LIFE)
08/29/2006: 818 words, approx. 3 pages Byline: LEX ALEXANDER Staff Writer After 18 seasons, I'm retiring from pro football. Not the NFL (as if). No, the National News & Record Football League, the fantasy-football league to which I have devoted inordinate amounts of time and energy. In... summary from source:
Australian Literary Studies In the beginning: David Malouf's An Imaginary Life.
10/01/2005: 9,074 words, approx. 30 pages The study of Malouf's work-in-progress for An Imaginary Life offers insights into the author s intentions in this important second novel, first published by George Braziller in New York in 1978. The discussion will focus first on Malouf's account of the composing of the...
Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by Kate Eldred
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If Lucretius was Rome's philosophical poet, and Virgil her chronicler of former glories, then Ovid was Rome's poet of decadence, the bad boy, extoller of carnal love, the avant-garde revolutionary of the last days of Glorious Rome. Not much is known for sure about his life beyond some bare facts…. In [An Imaginary Life], David Malouf, following in the foot-steps of Doctorow and Vidal and Meyer, has taken an historical figure and invented the missing part of his story. (p. 36)
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