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Collected Short Fiction (Paperback)
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Collected Short Fiction (Paperback)
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Originally published between 1985 and 2012, these stories offer an
enthralling introduction to the work of one of contemporary
fiction's greatest magicians, and a map of Gerald Murnane's
evolution as a writer. Spare, transparent and profane, This
career-spanning volume ranges from 'Finger Web', a fractal tale of
the scars of war and the roots of misogyny, to 'Land Deal', which
imagines Australia's colonisation and the ultimate vengeance of its
indigenous people as a series of nested dreams, to 'The Interior of
Gaaldine', a story which finds its anxious protagonist stranded
beyond the limits of fiction itself, and which points the way
toward Murnane's later works, from Barley Patch to Border
Districts. With potent style and determined vision, Murnane creates
sensitive portraits of intimate relationships - with parents,
uncles and aunts, and particularly children - and probes each
situation for anxiety and embarrassment, shame or delight. Murnane
treats emotions and thoughts as he does minor objects: he shines
light through them and makes them new, remaking the vessel of
literature as he goes.
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