A History of Books.
Murnane, Gerald, 1939-
A History of Books. - Sydney : Giramondo, (c)2012. - 1 online resource (216 pages)
Includes bibliographies and index.
A HISTORY OF BOOKS; As It Were a Letter; The Boy's Name Was David; Last Letter to a Niece; PUBLISHER'S NOTE.
This new work by Gerald Murnane is a fictionalised autobiography told in thirty sections, each of which begins with the memory of a book that has left an image on the writer?s mind. The titles aren?t given but the reader follows the clues, recalling in the process a parade of authors, the great, the popular, and the now-forgotten. The images themselves, with their scenes of marital discord, violence and madness, or their illuminated landscapes that point to the consolations of a world beyond fiction, give new intensity to Murnane?s habitual concern with the anxieties and aspirations of the wri.
9781922146229 9781922146212
Short stories, Australian.
Australian fiction.
Electronic Books.
PR9619 / .H578 2012
A History of Books. - Sydney : Giramondo, (c)2012. - 1 online resource (216 pages)
Includes bibliographies and index.
A HISTORY OF BOOKS; As It Were a Letter; The Boy's Name Was David; Last Letter to a Niece; PUBLISHER'S NOTE.
This new work by Gerald Murnane is a fictionalised autobiography told in thirty sections, each of which begins with the memory of a book that has left an image on the writer?s mind. The titles aren?t given but the reader follows the clues, recalling in the process a parade of authors, the great, the popular, and the now-forgotten. The images themselves, with their scenes of marital discord, violence and madness, or their illuminated landscapes that point to the consolations of a world beyond fiction, give new intensity to Murnane?s habitual concern with the anxieties and aspirations of the wri.
9781922146229 9781922146212
Short stories, Australian.
Australian fiction.
Electronic Books.
PR9619 / .H578 2012