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Invisible Yet Enduring Lilacs (Paperback)
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Invisible Yet Enduring Lilacs (Paperback)
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List price R371
Loot Price R302
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You Save R69 (19%)
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'Someone has written that all art aspires to the condition of
music. My experience is that all art, including all music, aspires
to the condition of horse-racing.' This collection of essays leads
the reader into the searching and wildly fertile imagination of
Gerald Murnane, one of the masters of contemporary Australian
writing, author of the classics Border Districts and Tamarisk Row,
and winner of the Patrick White Literary Award. He writes of
himself: as a boy making racehorses of his marbles, an obsession
shared with Jack Kerouac; as a writer, working his first ten years
in secret; as a reader, trying to understand the mystery of the
right sentence by way of Virginia Woolf and Robert Frost; as a
teacher, exploring the endless ways in which words can express the
contours of our thoughts. From these vantage points Murnane sees
the worlds of significance that lie within, or just beyond, the
everyday details of Australian life. Carrying the reader with him
across the valleys, plains and grasslands of his mind, this
singular author creates an immersive landscape in which every word
has its own space, shape and weight.
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