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A man moves from a capital city to a remote town in the border country, where he intends to spend the last years of his life. It is time, he thinks, to review the spoils of a lifetime of seeing, a lifetime of reading. Which sights, people, books, fictiona
Clement Killeaton transforms his fathers gambling, his mothers 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
Someone has written that all art aspires to the condition of music. My experience is that all art, including all music, aspires to the condition of horse-racing. This collection of essays leads the reader into the searching and wildly fertile imagination
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
Inland is a work which gathers in emotional power as it moves across the grasslands of its narrators 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
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 chronic
For tyve år siden da jeg først ankom til sletterne, holdt jeg øjnene åbne. Jeg ledte efter alt det i landskabet der kunne tyde på en mere kompleks mening bag det ydre skin. Sletterne fortæller den sælsomme historie om et alternativt Australien befolket af
I Grænseområder flytter en mand fra en hovedstad til en fjerntliggende by, hvor han har til hensigt at tilbringe de sidste år af sit liv. Som undersøger af mentale billedverdener haster det nu sent i livet med at bringe hans mentale landskab i orden. Han