Barley Patch
Gerald Murnane
(Author)
21,000+ Reviews
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Description
Discover the Australian novelist ranked by Ladbrokes as a top-five contender for the 2010 Nobel Prize.
Product Details
Price
$14.95
$13.90
Publisher
Dalkey Archive Press
Publish Date
September 20, 2011
Pages
255
Dimensions
5.4 X 8.1 X 0.7 inches | 0.7 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9781564786760
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About the Author
Gerald Murnane was born in Melbourne, Australia in 1939. He is the author of eight works of fiction, including "Barley Patch, Inland, The Plains", and Tamarisk Row, as well as a collection of essays, "Invisible Yet Enduring Lilacs". Murnane has been a recipient of the Patrick White Award and the Melbourne Prize. "Barley Patch" won the 2010 Adelaide Festival Award for Innovation.
Reviews
[A] book about another, more perfect book never destined to be written . . . It is like a big, polished stone thrown into the babbling brook of ordinary novels.
Murnane examines the nature of reading and writing and the construction of truths and fictions. And somehow, without the use of metaphor or simile, but simple transparency, he approaches the underside of these concepts, the heart of the matter, the magic of the thing that is storytelling. --Smiljana Glisovic
Murnane is quite simply one of the finest writers we have produced. --Peter Craven
An obsessive, funny, wonderfully self-invented writer at the height of his powers. --Michael Heyward
Murnane examines the nature of reading and writing and the construction of truths and fictions. And somehow, without the use of metaphor or simile, but simple transparency, he approaches the underside of these concepts, the heart of the matter, the magic of the thing that is storytelling. --Smiljana Glisovic
Murnane is quite simply one of the finest writers we have produced. --Peter Craven
An obsessive, funny, wonderfully self-invented writer at the height of his powers. --Michael Heyward
