Murnane is a recipient of the Patrick White Literary Award, the Melbourne Prize for Literature and an Emeritus Fellowship from the Literature Board of the Australia Council. Dalkey Archive, 13.95 trade paper (176p) ISBN 978-1-56478-717-0 More By and About this Authorchevronright Featured Fiction Reviews. It has been described as one of Murnanes greatest and most ambitious works, although some reviewers have criticised its use of repetition, lack of clear structure and reliance on writing as a subject matter. He has published eight previous works of fiction, Tamarisk Row (reprinted by Giramondo in 2008), A Lifetime on Clouds, The Plains, Landscape with Landscape, Inland, Velvet Waters, Emerald Blue and Barley Patch and a collection of essays, Invisible Yet Enduring Lilacs. Inland is a novel by Gerald Murnane, first published in 1988. Murnane’s mastery over language and his pressing towards the edges of what fiction can accomplish make this book a landmark in Australian literature.Gerald Murnane was born in Melbourne in 1939. From his native district in the Melbourne suburb of Pascoe Vale, Murnane’s narrator imagines another world, in Szolnok county Hungary, and within that world another, in Ideal South Dakota, each haunted by the betrayal of a young girl, each driven by the possibility of restitution. Australian writer Gerald Murnane lectures in fiction writing at the Faculty of Arts, Victoria College, and is the author of the novels Tamarisk Row, A.

Please see Wikipedias template documentation for further citation fields that may be required. 2003, Inland / by Gerald Murnane Sydney University Press Sydney. First published 25 years ago, Inland is one of Murnane’s most complex and rewarding works, a study of guilt, longing and regret rich in metaphysical insights. Inland / by Gerald Murnane Sydney University Press Sydney 2003. With Giramondo’s publication of Barley Patch and A History of Books, Gerald Murnane has attracted renewed interest as a brilliant writer and Nobel Prize contender.

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