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Landscape with Landscape

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Availability:In StockContributor:Gerald MurnanePublish date:1/13/2026Pages:328
Language:EnglishPublisher:And Other StoriesISBN-13:9781916751378ISBN-10:1916751377UPC:9781916751378Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Biographical & Autofiction, Short Stories (single author)Size:7.70 x 4.90 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.5512Product ID:SCJ4FNQWYG
Landscape with Landscape was Gerald Murnane's fourth book, after The Plains, and his first collection of short fiction. When it was first published, thirty years ago, it was cruelly reviewed. "I feel sorry for my fourth-eldest, which of all my book-children was the most brutally treated in its early years," Murnane writes in his foreword to this new edition. In hindsight it can be seen to contain some of his best writing, and to offer a wide-ranging exploration of the different landscapes which make up the imagination of this extraordinary Australian writer. Five of the six loosely connected stories also trace a journey through the suburbs of Melbourne in the 1960s, as the writer negotiates the conflicting demands of Catholicism and sex, self-consciousness and intimacy, alcohol and literature. The sixth story, 'The Battle of Acosta Nu', is remarkable for its depth of emotion, as it imagines a Paraguayan man imagining a country called Australia, while his son sickens and dies before his eyes.

Language:EnglishPublisher:And Other StoriesISBN-13:9781916751378ISBN-10:1916751377UPC:9781916751378Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Biographical & Autofiction, Short Stories (single author)Size:7.70 x 4.90 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.5512Product ID:SCJ4FNQWYG
Gerald Murnane is the award-winning author of such acclaimed works of fiction as Border Districts, The Plains and Inland, and equally acclaimed non-fiction such as Last Letter to a Reader and the essay collection Invisible Yet Enduring Lilacs. Murnane lives in Goroke, a remote village in western Victoria, Australia.
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