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A History of Books by Gerald Murnane
Category: Languages and Reference
This new work by Gerald Murnane is a fictionalised autobiography told in thirty sections, each of which begins with the memory of a book that has left an image on the writer's mind. The titles aren't given but the reader follows the clues, recalling in the process a parade of authors, the great, the pop ...Show more
A Lifetime on Clouds (Text Classics) by Gerald Murnane
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Text Classics
Adrian Sherd is a teenage boy in Melbourne of the 1950s - the last years before television and the family car changed suburbia forever. Earnest and isolated, tormented by his hormones and his religious devotion, Adrian dreams of elaborate orgies with American film stars, and of marrying his sweetheart a ...Show more
A Million Windows by Gerald Murnane
Category: Fiction
"The house of fiction," wrote Henry James, "has . . . not one window, but a million." In this, his latest work, Gerald Murnane, one of Australia's most acclaimed contemporary authors, takes these words as his starting point, and asks: Who, exactly, are that house's residents, and what do they see from t ...Show more
A Season on Earth by Gerald Murnane
Category: Fiction | Series: hc
What he had been searching for was not the perfect religious order but the perfect landscape...From that moment on he was a poet in search of his ideal landscape. Lost to the world for more than four decades, A Season on Earth is the essential link between two acknowledged masterpieces by Gerald Murnan ...Show more
Barley Patch by Gerald Murnane
Category: Fiction
Barley Patch takes as its subject the reasons an author might abandon fiction--or so he thinks--forever. Using the form of an oblique self-interrogation, it begins with the Beckettian question "Must I write?” and proceeds to expand from this small, personal query to fill in the details of a landscape en ...Show more
Border Districts by Gerald Murnane
Category: Fiction
Giramondo's publication of Gerald Murnane's new work of fiction comes at a time of heightened international interest in this highly regarded author. Border Districts and Murnane's Collected Short Fiction will be released in the United States by distinguished New York publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux ...Show more
Gerald Murnane: Collected Short Fiction by Gerald Murnane
Category: Fiction
Definitive collection of the short fiction of an Australian master-storyteller who is in a league of his own. Released simultaneously with Farrar Straus Giroux's editions of Border Districts and Collected Short Fiction in New York, an event which is likely to get international media attention. This volu ...Show more
Green Shadows and Other Poems by Gerald Murnane
Category: Poetry
Gerald Murnane turns to poetry at the end of his literary career, writing frank, disarming poems that traverse the rich span of his life. I esteem / above all poems or passages of prose / those that put a lump in my throat. - Gerald Murnane, 'The Darkling Thrush' Gerald Murnane, now in his eightieth yea ...Show more
Inland by Gerald Murnane
Category: Fiction
Inland is a compact story or group of stories, each nested within another nonetheless opening onto a seemingly endless fractal geography, where the interior of Australia, the Midwestern prairie, and the Hungarian Alf ld merge, imitate, and enfold one another in the mind of a man sitting alone in a room ...Show more