Ebook {Epub PDF} The Plains by Gerald Murnane

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 is unquestionably one of the most original writers working in Australia today and The Plains is a fascinating and rewarding book” — The Australian “ The Plains are a vast place inhabited by wealthy landowners whose prime obsession seems to be preserving history by ‘shaping from uneventful days in a flat landscape the.

The Plains - Gerald Murnane () 'A mirage of landscape, memory, love, and literature itself'- Murray Bail, author of Eucalyptus. As I kayaked up the Wye river, blissfully enjoying the smooth paddling stylings of my partner, the silence was broken by a shout from a fast approaching canoe: "Hey, aren't you the guy who loved the camp. • "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, The plains (Review) Wayne Macauley, he of the Most Underrated Book Award fame, wrote in his introduction to my edition of Gerald Murnane 's The plains that "you might not know where Murnane is taking you but you can't help being taken". That's a perfect description of my experience of reading this now classic novella.

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. Paperback. Condition: New. UK ed. Language: English. Brand new Book. 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. Gerald Murnane has such a unique voice he deserves to have his own adjective alongside other favourite writers of mine such as Kafka and Ballard. In fact the preoccupation with the effect of landscape on the psyche reminds me of the early Ballard "disaster" novels like The Drowned World and The Drought.