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Winner Of The Patrick White Literary Award, 1999. Introduction By Wayne Macauley. There Is No Book In Australian Literature Like The Plains. In The Two Decades Since Its First Publication, This Haunting Novel Has Earned Its Status As A Classic. A Nameless Young Man Arrives On The Plains And Begins To Document The Strange And Rich Culture Of The Plains Families. As His Story Unfolds, The Novel Becomes, In The Words Of Murray Bail, ‘a Mirage Of Landscape, Memory, Love And Literature Itself’. Gerald Murnane Was Born In Melbourne In 1939. He Has Left Victoria Only A Handful Of Times And Has Never Been On An Aeroplane. His First Novel, Tamarisk Row, Was Published In 1974, And Was Followed By Seven Other Works Of Fiction, Most Recently, Barley Patch. He Has Also Published A Collection Of Essays, Invisible Yet Enduring Lilacs (2005). In 1999, Gerald Murnane Won The Patrick White Award. In 2009 He Won The Melbourne Prize For Literature. Wayne Macauley Is The Author Of Three Novels, Blueprints For A Barbed-wire Canoe (2004), Caravan Story (2007) And The Cook (2011), And The Short Fiction Collection Other Stories (2010). He Lives In Melbourne. ‘murnane Is Quite Simply One Of The Finest Write

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Author

Gerald Murnane, Wayne Macauley

Publisher

The Text Publishing Company

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9781876485443

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Contemporary Fiction

Rating

3.7 / 5 (180 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14