Invisible Yet Enduring Lilacs

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.

Delicately argued and finely written, they describe his dislocated youth in the suburbs of Melbourne and rural Victoria in the 1950s, his debt to writers as unlike as Adam Lindsay Gordon, Marcel Proust and Jack Kerouac, his obsession with racehorses and grasslands and the Hungarian language, and above all, his dedication to the worlds of significance that lie within, or just beyond, the familiar details of Australian life.

About the author

Gerald Murnane is the award-winning author of acclaimed works of fiction as Border Districts, The Plains and Inland, and equally acclaimed non-fiction such as Last Letter to a Reader and the essay collection Invisible Yet Enduring Lilacs. Murnane lives in Goroke, a remote village in western Victoria, Australia.

Summary

A masterful collection of essays from one of Australia’s most searching and expert writers.

Product details

• Authors: Gerald Murnane, Murnane Gerald
• Publisher: And Other Stories
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 25.02.2020
• EAN: 9781911508663
• ISBN: 978-1-911508-66-3
• No. of pages: 208
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Essays, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Literary, Autobiography: general, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays, Memoirs, Literary essays, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Memoirs