Plains

Gerald Murnane

ISBN 10: 1921922273 / ISBN 13: 9781921922275

Verlag: Text Publishing C/O Turnaround Apr 2012, 2012

Beschreibung

Neuware - Author was recently featured in the New York Times. Awareness of this novel is high; Very affordable Classics edition, following the boutique hardcover with Ben Lerner's introduction published in 2016; Murnane widely tipped as a future laureate of the Nobel Prize for Literature; Author received the Patrick White Literary Award in 1999, and the Melbourne Prize for Literature in 2009; Features a new introduction by Wayne Macauley, author of The Cook; Murnane's latest novel, Border Districts, has been shortlisted for the 2018 Miles Franklin Award.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9781921922275

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Plains
• Verlag: Text Publishing C/O Turnaround Apr 2012
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 1921922273
• ISBN-13: 9781921922275
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Zustand: Neu
• Abmessungen: 199B x 129 H x 14 T Millimeter Breite: 199 mm, Höhe: 129 mm, Tiefe: 14 mm
• Gewicht: 150 Gramm

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Inhaltsangabe

There is no novel in all of Australian literature that is quite comparable to The Plains. A nameless young man arrives on the plains'' and begins to document the strange and rich culture of the plains families, with intention of producing a film. As his story unfolds, the novel becomes, in the words of Murray Bail, ''a mirage of landscape, memory, love and literature itself''. The vast, incomprehensible landscape of Australia becomes not a tangible place but an abstract and mythological concept. Published in 1982, this haunting novel has earned its status as a classic.''

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Gerald Murnane was born in Melbourne in 1939. He has been a primary teacher, an editor and a university lecturer. His debut novel, Tamarisk Row (1974), was followed by eleven other works of fiction, including The Plains, A Million Windows and, most recently, Border Districts [shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Award]. In 1999 Murnane won the Patrick White Award and in 2009 he won the Melbourne Prize for Literature. He lives in western Victoria.