| Description |
1 online resource (216 pages) |
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text file |
| Contents |
A HISTORY OF BOOKS; As It Were a Letter; The Boy's Name Was David; Last Letter to a Niece; PUBLISHER'S NOTE. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Short stories, Australian.
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Short stories, Australian. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Murnane, Gerald. A History of Books. Sydney : Giramondo, ©2012 9781920882853 |
| ISBN |
9781922146229 (electronic book) |
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1922146226 (electronic book) |
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9781922146212 (electronic book) |
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1922146218 (electronic book) |
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9781920882853 |
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