Description
Title: History of Books, A
Author: MURNANE GERALD
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 01/05/2012
Imprint: GIRAMONDO PUBLISHING COMP
Price: $29.95
Publishing status: Active
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 writers mind. The titles arent 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 Murnanes habitual concern with the anxieties and aspirations of the writing life, in the absence of religious belief. A History of Books is accompanied by three shorter pieces of fiction which play on these themes, featuring the writer at different ages, as a young boy, a teacher, and an old recluse.
ISBN: 9781920882853
Dimension: 210mm X 150mm
Edition: 01