History of books [[electronic resource] /] / Gerald Murnane
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| Autore: |
Murnane Gerald <1939->
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| Titolo: |
History of books [[electronic resource] /] / Gerald Murnane
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| Pubblicazione: | Artarmon, NSW, : Giramondo, 2012 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (216 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 823.3 |
| Soggetto topico: | Australian fiction |
| Biographical fiction | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di contenuto: | CONTENTS; A HISTORY OF BOOKS; As It Were a Letter; The Boy's Name Was David; Last Letter to a Niece; PUBLISHER'S NOTE |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | History of books |
| ISBN: | 1-922146-22-6 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910813811103321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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