A History of Books
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 writer?s mind. The titles aren?t given but the reader follows the clues, recalling in the process a parade of authors, the great, the...
| Основен автор: | Murnane, Gerald, 1939- |
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| Формат: | Електронен |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Sydney :
Giramondo,
2012.
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| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=516172 |
| Подобни документи: |
Print version::
A History of Books. |
| Резюме: |
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 writer?s mind. The titles aren?t 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 Murnane?s habitual concern with the anxieties and aspirations of the wri. |
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| Физически характеристики: |
1 online resource (216 pages) |
| ISBN: |
9781922146229 1922146226 9781922146212 1922146218 |