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Eucalyptus - Softcover

Bail, Murray

 
9780676972375: Eucalyptus
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0676972373 ISBN 13: 9780676972375
Verlag: Vintage Canada, 1999

Inhaltsangabe

Winner of the 1999 Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best Book

A New York Times Notable Book of 1998

"There is such delight in Eucalyptus, such a strange and sly and swerving humour -- You will never forget what is at the heart of this novel -- one of the great and most surprising courtships in literature."
--Michael Ondaatje

Amidst the spearing light and broken shadows of Australia's Outback, a man named Holland raises his daughter, Ellen. As she grows into a woman of unusual beauty, he tends an orchard that boasts every species of eucalyptus. When Ellen is nineteen, her father makes an announcement: she will marry the man who can successfully name each tree. What emerges is a story scintillating with sudden wisdom and spiky truths, a modern-day fairy tale that affirms the seductive power of storytelling itself.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Murray Bail is the author of two other novels, Holden's Performance and Homesickness, which won Australia's National Book Award, and a collection of stories. He lives in Sydney, Australia.

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"Incandescent ... [Eucalyptus] bristles with psychosexual tension as it addresses the human urges to manipulate, possess and surrender -- in other words, the whole imbroglio of Love with a capital L." - New York Times Book Review

"Charming, amusing, seductive and--beguiling-- A splendid novel of startling originality." - The Toronto Star

"[Eucalyptus is] as languorous as the pools of sunlight beneath the eucalyptus...Murray Bail is the master of his web...spun entirely of language." - The Globe and Mail



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Winner of the 1999 Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best Book

A New York Times Notable Book of 1998

"T here is such delight in Eucalyptus, such a strange and sly and swerving humour--You will never forget what is at the heart of this novel -- one of the great and most surprising courtships in literature."- Michael Ondaatje

Amidst the spearing light and broken shadows of Australia's Outback, a man named Holland raises his daughter, Ellen. As she grows into a woman of unusual beauty, he tends an orchard that boasts every species of eucalyptus. When Ellen is nineteen, her father makes an announcement: she will marry the man who can successfully name each tree. What emerges is a story scintillating with sudden wisdom and spiky truths, a modern-day fairy tale that affirms the seductive power of storytelling itself.

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Verlag
Vintage Canada
Erscheinungsdatum
1999
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0676972373
ISBN 13 
9780676972375
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
264
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