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'And in the middle in khaki shorts, dusty knees, is he. Aged twelve he already has a certain earnestness, the solemnity, trying to comprehend what is incomprehensible, ‘he wouldn’t know what day it is’.
'He. is an elusive, elliptical, often beautiful thread of observations and memories. It is not autobiography, or even memoir, but a portrait of a figure shown to be passing through time and circumstances.
'In vignettes, sometimes mere fragments, we glimpse moments and lives—parents, teachers, wives; in Bombay of the 1960s, Paris and London of the 1970s, Melbourne and Sydney—as this figure remembers the years.
'These are Murray Bail’s last reflections on his life: the final book from the acclaimed author of such classic novels as The Pages, Eucalyptus (winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award) and Homesickness.' (Publication summary)
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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From the Outsider Looking In
2021
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 13 March 2021; (p. 20)
— Review of He. 2021 single work autobiography -
His Mother Was a Milliner. She Also Did Flowers for the Church.
2021
single work
review
— Appears in: Overland [Online] , March 2021;
— Review of He. 2021 single work autobiography -
He by Murray Bail Review – a Meditative Memoir of Life in Postwar Australia
2021
single work
review
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 2 April 2021;
— Review of He. 2021 single work autobiography -
Murray Bail, He.
2021
single work
review
— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 13-19 March 2021;
— Review of He. 2021 single work autobiography'There are certain books, the publication of which it would be an understatement to call anything less than an event. He. is one.'
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‘In Whitish Light’ : Memoir as a Cautionary Tale
2021
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , March no. 429 2021; (p. 26-27)
— Review of He. 2021 single work autobiography 'In 2005, Murray Bail published Notebooks: 1970–2003. ‘With some corrections’, the contents were transcriptions of entries Bail made in notebooks during that period. Now, in 2021, dozens of these entries – observations, quotations, reflections, scenes – recur in his new book, He. It’s to be assumed that this book, too, is a series of carefully selected transcriptions from the same, and later, notebooks.' (Introduction)
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‘In Whitish Light’ : Memoir as a Cautionary Tale
2021
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , March no. 429 2021; (p. 26-27)
— Review of He. 2021 single work autobiography 'In 2005, Murray Bail published Notebooks: 1970–2003. ‘With some corrections’, the contents were transcriptions of entries Bail made in notebooks during that period. Now, in 2021, dozens of these entries – observations, quotations, reflections, scenes – recur in his new book, He. It’s to be assumed that this book, too, is a series of carefully selected transcriptions from the same, and later, notebooks.' (Introduction) -
Murray Bail, He.
2021
single work
review
— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 13-19 March 2021;
— Review of He. 2021 single work autobiography'There are certain books, the publication of which it would be an understatement to call anything less than an event. He. is one.'
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He by Murray Bail Review – a Meditative Memoir of Life in Postwar Australia
2021
single work
review
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 2 April 2021;
— Review of He. 2021 single work autobiography -
His Mother Was a Milliner. She Also Did Flowers for the Church.
2021
single work
review
— Appears in: Overland [Online] , March 2021;
— Review of He. 2021 single work autobiography -
From the Outsider Looking In
2021
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 13 March 2021; (p. 20)
— Review of He. 2021 single work autobiography
Awards
- 2022 joint winner APA Book Design Awards — Best Designed Non Fiction Book desgined by W. H. Chong.
