Murnane, Gerald,  1939- <br/><br/>
A History of Books. 

 - Sydney :  Giramondo,  (c)2012. 
 - 1 online resource (216 pages) 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>A HISTORY OF BOOKS; As It Were a Letter; The Boy's Name Was David; Last Letter to a Niece; PUBLISHER'S NOTE. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781922146229 9781922146212 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Short stories, Australian.<br/>Australian fiction.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PR9619  / .H578 2012