02283nam 2200577Ia 450 991081381110332120240418015806.01-922146-22-6(CKB)2670000000271282(EBL)1057743(OCoLC)818818993(SSID)ssj0000970962(PQKBManifestationID)11516181(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000970962(PQKBWorkID)10928925(PQKB)11567774(MiAaPQ)EBC3440920(MiAaPQ)EBC1057743(Au-PeEL)EBL3440920(CaPaEBR)ebr10632066(OCoLC)932311852(Au-PeEL)EBL1057743(EXLCZ)99267000000027128220121220d2012 uy 1engur|n|---|||||txtccrHistory of books[electronic resource] /Gerald Murnane1st ed.Artarmon, NSW Giramondo20121 online resource (216 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-920882-85-5 CONTENTS; A HISTORY OF BOOKS; As It Were a Letter; The Boy's Name Was David; Last Letter to a Niece; PUBLISHER'S NOTEThis 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 wriAustralian fictionBiographical fictionAustralian fiction.Biographical fiction.823.3Murnane Gerald1939-473641ebrary, IncMiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910813811103321History of books4032125UNINA