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  • Inland

    by Gerald Murnane ...
    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 Alfold merge, imitate, and enfold one another in the mind of a man sitting alone in a room full of books. ... Read more

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  • Border Districts

    A Fiction

    by Gerald Murnane ...
    A bittersweet farewell to the world and the word by the Australian master"The mind is a place best viewed from borderlands . . ."Border Districts, purportedly the Australian master Gerald Murnane's final work of fiction, is a hypnotic, precise, and self-lacerating "report" on a life led as an avid reader, fumbling lover, "student of mental imagery," and devout believer—but a believer not in the ... Read more

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  • Last Letter to a Reader

    by Gerald Murnane ...
    In the first days of spring in his eighty-second year, Gerald Murnane – perhaps the greatest living writer of English prose – began a project that would round off his strange career as a novelist. He would read all of his books in turn and prepare a report on each. His original intention was to lodge the reports in two of his legendary filing cabinets: in the Chronological Archive, which documents ... Read more

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  • Tamarisk Row

    by Gerald Murnane ...
    Tamarisk Row is Gerald Murnane's first novel, and in many respects his masterpiece, an unsparing evocation of a Catholic childhood in a Victorian country town in the late 1940s.Clement Killeaton transforms his father's obsession with gambling, his mother's piety, the cruelty of his fellow pupils and the mysterious but forbidden attractions of sex, into an imagined world centred on horse-racing, ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Barley Patch

    by Gerald Murnane ...
    Essential reading for anyone interested in the art of fiction and on how images shape our thoughts, reading, and loves, Barley Patch lays bare the acts of writing and imagining. ... Read more

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  • A History of Books

    by Gerald Murnane ...
    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 popular, and the now-forgotten. The images themselves, with their scenes of marital discord, ... Read more

    $18.09 USD

  • Gerald Murnane

    Another World in This One

    by Tristan Foster, Luke Carman, Shannon Burns, Samantha Trayhurn, Emmett Stinson, Brigid Rooney, Mark Byron, Suzie Gibson, Arka Chattopadhyay, Ivor Indyk, Gerald Murnane ...
    Series series Sydney Studies in Australian Literature
    Gerald Murnane is one of Australia's most important contemporary authors, but for years was neglected by critics. In 2018 the New York Times described him as "the greatest living English-language writer most people have never heard of" and tipped him as a future Nobel Prize winner.Gerald Murnane: Another World in This One coincides with a renewed interest in his work. It includes an important new ... Read more

    $14.79 USD

  • Last Letter to a Reader

    by Gerald Murnane ...
    Final work by internationally acclaimed Australian author Gerald Murnane, reflecting on his career as a writer, and the fifteen books which have led critics to praise him as 'a genius on the level of Beckett'.A book which will appeal equally to Murnane's legion of fans, and to those new to his work, attracted by his reputation as a truly original Australian writer.In the first days of spring in ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Stream System

    The Collected Short Fiction of Gerald Murnane

    by Gerald Murnane ...
    Stories from a mind-bending Australian master, "a genius on the level of Beckett" (Teju Cole)Never before available to readers in this hemisphere, these stories—originally published from 1985 to 2012—offer an irresistible compendium of the work of one of contemporary fiction's greatest magicians.While the Australian master Gerald Murnane's reputation rests largely on his longer works of fiction, ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Landscape with Landscape

    by Gerald Murnane ...
    Landscape with Landscape is Gerald Murnane's first collection of short fiction. These loosely connected stories trace a journey through the suburbs of Melbourne in the 1960s, as the writer negotiates the conflicting demands of Catholicism and sex, self-consciousness and intimacy, alcohol and literature. Harshly reviewed upon publication, it is now lauded as some of his best writing, offering a ... Read more

    $14.79 USD

  • A Million Windows

    by Gerald Murnane ...
    This new work of fiction by one ofAustralia's most highly regarded authors focuses on the importance of trust, andthe possibility of betrayal, in storytelling as in life. It tests the relationshipestablished between author and reader, and on occasions of intimacy, betweenchild and parent, boyfriend and girlfriend, husband and wife. Murnane's fictionis woven from images, and the feelings associated ... Read more

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  • Invisible Yet Enduring Lilacs

    by Gerald Murnane ...
    This collection of essays leads the reader into the curious and eccentric imagination of Gerald Murnane, one of the masters of contemporary Australian writing, author of the classic novel The Plains, and winner of the Patrick White Literary Award.Delicately argued, and finely written, they describe his dislocated youth in the suburbs of Melbourne and rural Victoria in the 1950s, his debt to ... Read more

    $8.99 USD