Barley Patch - Softcover

Murnane, Gerald

 
9781916751149: Barley Patch
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1916751148 ISBN 13: 9781916751149
Verlag: And Other Stories, 2025

Inhaltsangabe

Published in Australia in 2009, Barley Patch was Murnane's first book in fourteen years, written after a period in which he had thought he would never write fiction again. 

The book begins with the question, "Must I write?" What follows is both a chronicle of the images that have endured in the author’s mind and an exploration of their nature. The clarity of the images is extraordinary, as is their range, from Mandrake the Magician to the bachelor uncle kicked in the "stones" as a child, from a cousin’s doll’s house to the mysterious woman who lets her hair down, from the soldier beetle who winks messages from God to the racehorses that run forever in the author’s mind.

The narrator lays bare the acts of writing and imagining, finally giving us a glimpse of the mythical place where the characters of fiction dwell before they come into existence in books. With something of the spirit of Italo Calvino and Georges Perec, this is a cornerstone of Murnane's unclassifiable project, for which he is a deserving Nobel Prize candidate.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

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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Verlag
And Other Stories
Erscheinungsdatum
2025
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1916751148
ISBN 13 
9781916751149
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
265
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