Results for "Murnane, Gerald"

Inland is a work which gathers in emotional power as it moves across the grasslands of its narrator's imagination--from Szolnok County on the great plains of Hungary where a man writes in the library of his manor house, to the Institute of Prairie Studies in Tripp County, South Dakota, where the edi... Read More about Inland

Clement Killeaton transforms his father's gambling, his mother's piety, his fellow pupils' cruelty and the mysterious but forbidden attractions of sex into an imagined world centred on horse-racing and played out in the dusty backyard of his home, across the landscapes of the district, and the conti... Read More about Tamarisk Row

Never before published in the United States, Gerald Murnane's classic collection of literary and personal essays, Invisible Yet Enduring Lilacs, is the perfect introduction to, and gazetteer for, the imaginary worlds created by one of the greatest living writers working in English today. Murnane wr... Read More about Invisible Yet Enduring Lilacs

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 lodg... Read More about Last Letter to a Reader

Published in Australia in 2009, Barley Patch was Murnane's first book in fourteen years, written after a period in which he had thought he would never write fiction again. The book begins with the question, "Must I write?" What follows is both a chronicle of the images that have endured in the autho... Read More about Barley Patch

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.Whi... Read More about Stream System: The Collected Short Fiction of Gerald Murnane