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A Lifetime on Clouds (Text Classics) by Gerald Murnane
$12.95 AUD
Category: 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 Season on Earth by Gerald Murnane
$39.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: hc
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
Border Districts by Gerald Murnane
$24.95 AUD
Category: 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
Gerald Murnane: Collected Short Fiction by Gerald Murnane
$34.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Definitive collection of the short fiction of an Australian master-storyteller who is in a league of his own. Released simultaneously with Farrar Straus Giroux's editions of Border Districts and Collected Short Fiction in New York, an event which is likely to get international media attention. This volu ...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
$26.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Inland (1989) is a dispersed, sprawling narrative, a set of texts interlocked by a myriad of narratives, a work that could be described as postmodern for its intricate examination of meaning. It challenges our interpretations of space and time, as if we were looking in another way, not out to the gliste ...Show more
Landscape with Landscape by Gerald Murnane
$26.95 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
The titles of this collection of six loosely connected stories, Landscape with Freckled Woman, Sipping the Essence, The Battle of Acosta Nu, A Quieter Place than Clun, Charlie Alcock's Cock, and Landscape with Artist suggest the range of he writer's vision. Some of the stories here have elements of surr ...Show more
Last Letter to a Reader by Gerald Murnane
$26.95 AUD
Category: Reference
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: 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
The Plains by Gerald Murnane ; Ben Lerner (Introduction by);
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
An affordable boutique hardcover for Murnane fans, featuring a new introduction by Ben Lerner. 'Murnane, a genius, is a worthy heir to Beckett.'--Teju Cole 'A careful stylist and a slyly comic writer with large ideas.'--Paris Review 'A distinguished, distinctive, unforgettable novel.'--Shirley Hazzar ...Show more
The Plains: Text Classics by Gerald Murnane
$12.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Text Classics Ser.
This is the story of the families of the plains--obsessed with their land and history, their culture and mythology--and of the man who ventured into their world.First published in 1982, The Plainsis a mesmerising work of startling originality. This handsome new hardback edition is introduced by Ben Ler ...Show more
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