A History of Books.

By:

Murnane, Gerald, 1939-

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Sydney : Giramondo, 2012.Description: 1 online resource (216 pages)Content type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9781922146229
1922146226
9781922146212
1922146218

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: A History of Books.DDC classification:

A823.3 23

LOC classification:

PR9619.3.M76

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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.

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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.