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'Gerald Murnane is one of Australia’s most celebrated authors whose experimental and deeply idiosyncratic style has attracted rave reviews, including profiles in The New Yorker and The New York Times. Murnane’s writing combines fiction with autobiography and returns obsessively to his particular and uncommon interests: horse- racing, marbles, stained glass, Catholic iconography, hermetic writers, and the Australian landscape. His fiction offers a window into what it means to be human, and how books and reading shape our self-understanding. Murnane examines the writer’s recent work to explain both its significance to Australian literature and provide readers with a deeper understanding of his complex and self-referential fiction.' (Publication summary) 

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    • Carlton, Parkville - Carlton area, Melbourne - North, Melbourne, Victoria,: Miegunyah Press , 2023 .
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      Extent: 160p.
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      •  Published August 2023

      ISBN: 9780522879469
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Works about this Work

Homemade and Cosmopolitan, the Idiosyncratic Writing of Gerald Murnane Continues to Attract Devotees Brigid Rooney , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: The Conversation , 7 September 2023;
— Review of Murnane Emmett Stinson , 2023 single work biography
Late Fictions : Gerald Murnane’s Retrospective Intention Shannon Burns , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , August no. 456 2023; (p. 53)
— Review of Murnane Emmett Stinson , 2023 single work biography

'Emmett Stinson’s brief critical survey centres on Gerald Murnane’s four major ‘late fictions’, beginning with Barley Patch (Giramondo, 2009) and ending with Border Districts (Giramondo, 2017). It is a timely and illuminating companion to Murnane’s recent fiction and works well as an extension of the first monograph on his work, Imre Salusinszky’s Gerald Murnane (Oxford University Press, 1993). Although the two books have different points of focus, they are slim yet substantial studies, each dealing with a distinct period of Murnane’s literary career, and both are eminently readable.' (Introduction)
Late Fictions : Gerald Murnane’s Retrospective Intention Shannon Burns , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , August no. 456 2023; (p. 53)
— Review of Murnane Emmett Stinson , 2023 single work biography

'Emmett Stinson’s brief critical survey centres on Gerald Murnane’s four major ‘late fictions’, beginning with Barley Patch (Giramondo, 2009) and ending with Border Districts (Giramondo, 2017). It is a timely and illuminating companion to Murnane’s recent fiction and works well as an extension of the first monograph on his work, Imre Salusinszky’s Gerald Murnane (Oxford University Press, 1993). Although the two books have different points of focus, they are slim yet substantial studies, each dealing with a distinct period of Murnane’s literary career, and both are eminently readable.' (Introduction)
Homemade and Cosmopolitan, the Idiosyncratic Writing of Gerald Murnane Continues to Attract Devotees Brigid Rooney , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: The Conversation , 7 September 2023;
— Review of Murnane Emmett Stinson , 2023 single work biography
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