Purportedly the Australian master's final work, reflecting on the bittersweet nature of the literary life. Teju Cole, Ben Lerner and Lidija Haas are fans. von Murnane, Gerald

An unsparing evocation of a Catholic childhood in 1940s rural Australia, originally published in 1974. Out of boredom, fear and fascination a young boy transfigures his surroundings into an imagined world with horse racing at its centre....

A Season On Earth von Murnane, Gerald

Collected Short Fiction von Murnane, Gerald

A young man arrives on the plains to document the strange, rich culture of the landowning families. This quest becomes his life. Teju Cole calls Murnane 'a genius on the level of Beckett.' von Murnane, Gerald

Stories from a mind-bending Australian master, "a genius on the level of Beckett" (Teju Cole)Never before available to readers in this hemisphere, these stories-originally published from 1985 to 2012-offer an irresistible compendium of...

In the first days of spring in his eighty-second year, Gerald Murnane - perhaps the greatest living writer of English prose - began a project that would round off his strange career as a novelist. He would read all of his books in turn...