Gerald Murnane was born in Melbourne in He has been a primary teacher, an editor and a university lecturer. His debut novel, Tamarisk Row (), was followed by ten other works of fiction, including The Plains and most recently Border Districts. In Murnane won the Patrick White Award and in he won the Melbourne Prize for Literature.4/5(40). • “The Plains” by Gerald Murnane Braziller, First U.S. Edition, 1st Printing • • • "Americana” by Don DeLillo Houghton Mifflin, First Edition, 1st Printing Ex-Library • • Dust Jacket: Very Good+ Unclipped ($) dust jacket shows mild wear. Light wear to to panels and edges. Gerald Murnane. · Rating details · 1, ratings · reviews. On their vast estates, the landowning families of the plains have preserved a rich and distinctive culture. Obsessed with their own habitat and history, they hire artisans, writers and historians to record in minute detail every aspect of their lives, and the nature of their land/5().
There is no book in Australian writing like Gerald Murnane's The www.doorway.ruuced by Wayne Macauley Winner, Patrick White Literary Award, Twenty years ago, when I first arrived on the plains, I kept my eyes open. I looked for anything in the landscape that seemed to hint at some elaborate meaning behind www.doorway.ru is the story of. Gerald Murnane (born 25 February ) is an Australian writer, perhaps best known for his novel The Plains ().The New York Times, in a big feature published on 27 March , called him "the greatest living English-language writer most people have never heard of". by Gerald Murnane ‧ RELEASE DATE: Ap A man travels to Australia's interior plains planning to make a film about the region's people and culture, but mostly he ruminates in this wry, evocative novel.
• “The Plains” by Gerald Murnane Braziller, First U.S. Edition, 1st Printing • • • "Americana” by Don DeLillo Houghton Mifflin, First Edition, 1st Printing Ex-Library • • Dust Jacket: Very Good+ Unclipped ($) dust jacket shows mild wear. It could be claimed (and I am about to) that Gerald Murnane’s novel The Plains has the most compelling opening in Australian fiction. Twenty years ago, when I first arrived on the plains. Consumed by the landscape: The Plains by Gerald Murnane There is a certain futility in setting out to write a review of Gerald Murnane’s classic novel, The Plains. Like the world in which it is set, it eludes concise description, or, rather, any attempt to contain it fails to capture its rare and strange beauty.
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