Gerald Murnane, Author , trans. from the German by Jaimy Gordon. New Issues $14 (111p) ISBN 978-1-930974-28-9
It's not just a dog's life—it's a pig-cow-rat's life. In this deftly executed allegorical novel, Beig (Lost Weddings
) gives an episodic, animal-centered account of the life of a young woman in rural Germany between the two...
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Gerald Murnane. Dalkey Archive, $13.95 trade paper (176p) ISBN 978-1-56478-717-0
Murnane’s learned novel (after Barley Patch), published in his native Australia in 1988, goes a long way toward capturing why he’s been dubbed the Australian Italo Calvino. Like the Italian postmodernist, Murnane is a writer of deceptive simplicity,
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Gerald Murnane. Godine, $18.95 trade paper (200p) ISBN 978-1-56792-555-5
Part memoir and part manifesto, Australian writer Murnane's series of fictional and essayistic experiments requires careful consideration and study. The premise of the book extends from the Henry James epigraph that opens it: "The house of fiction...
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Gerald Murnane. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $18 trade paper (560p) ISBN 978-0-374-12600-1
This impressive collection represents a monumental achievement from one of Australia’s most important writers. Murnane is often categorized as a “writer’s writer” for his tendency to unspool long descriptions and focus his narratives on fiction...
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Gerald Murnane. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $23 (144p) ISBN 978-0-374-11575-3
Devotees of Murnane (The Plains), the exacting Australian writer of crafty, austere fictions, will find familiar themes in this prismatic work: the fascination with color, the grassy landscapes, and the obsessive compiling of a mind’s “image-history.
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Gerald Murnane. Text, $26.95 (512p) ISBN 978-1-925773-34-7
This touching, semi-autobiographical coming-of-age novel from Murnane (Border Districts) presents the original vision of what became his second novel, 1976’s A Lifetime on Clouds. Two previously unpublished sections are now added to the funny,...
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Gerald Murnane. And Other Stories, $18 trade paper (208p) ISBN 978-1-911508-66-3
Australian novelist Murnane (A Million Windows) explores memory, reading, and the craft of writing in this meditative collection of essays. In “The Breathing Author,” he describes how “one of my greatest pleasures as a writer of prose fiction has...
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