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A Lifetime on Clouds (Text Classics) by Gerald Murnane
$12.95 AUD
Category: General 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
$26.95 AUD
Category: General 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
$39.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: hc | Reading Level: 1 Fiction
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
$27.95 AUD
Category: Writing Guides
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
$24.95 AUD
Category: General 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
Green Shadows and Other Poems by Gerald Murnane
$24.00 AUD
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
$17.95 AUD
Category: Australian Non-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
Last Letter to a Reader by Gerald Murnane
$26.95 AUD
Category: Literature
A 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, a ...Show more
Selected Poems – Lesbia Harford by Gerald Murnane, Lesbia Harford
$14.95 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Text Classics Ser.
A collection of poems by the Australian poet Lesbia Harford, selected and introduced by Gerald Murnane.I love you moreThan God loves the world.Little published in her lifetime, Lesbia Harford died young in the late 1920s. Her short lyrical poems-about social justice, revolution, free love, feminism and ...Show more
Something for the Pain by Gerald Murnane
$23.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography
As a boy, Gerald Murnane became obsessed with horse racing. He had never ridden a horse, nor seen a race. Yet he was fascinated by photos of horse races in the Sporting Globe, and by the incantation of horses' names in radio broadcasts of races. Murnane discovered in these races more than he could find ...Show more
Something for the Pain: A Memoir of the Turf by Gerald Murnane
$29.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography
I never met anyone whose interest in racing matched my own. Both on and off the course, so to speak, I've enjoyed the company of many a racing acquaintance...I've read books, or parts of books, by persons who might have come close to being true racing friends of mine if ever we had met. For most of my l ...Show more