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Border Districts

A Fiction

Border Districts( )
Author: Murnane, Gerald
ISBN:978-1-250-31032-3
Publication Date:Jan 2019
Publisher:Picador
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $19.00
Book Description:

A bittersweet farewell to the world and the word by the Australian master "The mind is a place best viewed from borderlands . . ." Border Districts, purportedly the Australian master Gerald Murnane's final work of fiction, is a hypnotic, precise, and self-lacerating "report" on a life led as an avid reader, fumbling lover, "student of mental imagery," and devout believer--but a believer not in the commonplaces of religion, but rather in the...
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Book Details
Pages:144
Detailed Subjects: Fiction / General
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):14.16 x 7.98 x 0.4 Inches
Book Weight:0.308 Pounds
Author Biography
Murnane, Gerald (Author)
Gerald Murname was born in Melbourne, Australia in 1939. In 1956, he matriculated from De La Salle College Malvern. He briefly trained for the Roman Catholic priesthood in 1957, but decided to become a teacher in primary schools from 1960 to 1968 and at the Victoria Racing Club's Apprentice Jockeys' School. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Melbourne in 1969, then worked in the Victorian Education Department until 1973.

He is the author of numerous books including Tamarisk Row, A Lifetime on Clouds, The Plains, Landscape with Landscape, Inland, Velvet Waters, Emerald Blue, Invisible Yet Enduring Lilacs, Barley Patch, A History of Books, and A Million Windows. He won the Victorian Literary Award 2016 in the Nonfiction category for Something for the Pain: A Memoir of the Turf.

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